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Purchase decisions with non-linear pricing options under risk: experimental evidence
Maier-Rigaud, Frank P.; Beckenkamp, Martin - 2007
test standard decision theoretic predictions concerning purchasing behavior in a rebate and a discount scheme. We … switching to a linear pricing scheme is optimal. Our results indicate that rebate and discount schemes exert a significant …
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U.S. wage-price dynamics, before, during and after COVID-19, through the lens of an empirical econometric model
Bårdsen, Gunnar; Nymoen, Ragnar - 2024
We specify an empirical model of US inflation which has the dynamics of wage and price setting at its core. In the dynamic wage equation an equilibrium-correction term connects the wage level to industrial prosperity indicators. In that way, the role of wage setting in the dynamics of the...
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Do stay-at-home orders cause people to stay at home? Effects of stay-at-home orders on consumer behavior
Alexander, Diane; Karger, Ezra - 2020
We link the county-level rollout of stay-at-home orders to anonymized cellphone records and consumer spending data. We document three patterns. First, stay-at-home orders caused people to stay at home: county-level measures of mobility declined by between 9% and 13% by the day after the...
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Benefit assessment in Germany: Implications for price discounts
Theidel, Ulrike; von der Schulenburg, Johann-Matthias Graf - In: Health Economics Review 6 (2016) 33, pp. 1-12
Background: The AMNOG regulation, introduced in 2011 in Germany, changed the game for new drugs. Now, the industry is required to submit a dossier to the GBA (the central decision body in the German sickness fund system) to show additional benefit. After granting the magnitude of the additional...
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Bequeme Preise im Quickservice-Bereich
Möser, Anke; Kriep, Laura - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics (GJAE) 63 (2014) 2, pp. 96-108
Due to changes in demographic and social circumstances, the importance of food-away-from-home consumption increases. However, detailed facts on pricing strategies in this sector are still missing in Germany. This paper aims to provide cross-sectional evidence of pricing strategies in the quick...
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Size and Impact of Privatisation – A Survey of Empirical Studies
Chahyadi, Candra S.; Megginson, William L.; Netter, … - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 3-11
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Decision Structures in Franchise Systems of the Plural Form
Kranz, Sebastian; Lewin-Solomons, Shira B. - 2008
Many successful franchise chains directly own a positive fraction of stores --- a structure referred to as plural form. We propose that this ownership structure is chosen as a commitment not to expropriate franchisees. The theoretical model is based on an empirical analysis of contract and...
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Minimum wage channels of adjustment
Hirsch, Barry T.; Kaufman, Bruce E.; Zelenska, Tetyana - 2011
The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) is analyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-level biweekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing us to precisely measure the MW compliance cost for each...
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Sticky rebates: rollback rebates induce non-rational loyalty in consumers ; experimental evidence
Morell, Alexander; Glöckner, Andreas; Towfigh, Emanuel … - 2009
option (e.g., market entrant). In a real trading problem, participants repeatedly buy tokens and can enter a target rebate … scheme. Buying in a rebate scheme considerably reduces the likelihood that they switch to a higher-payoff outside option … stickiness effect increases with the increasing number of previous buying in the rebate scheme, but not with the size of the …
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Monopoly pricing under a Medicaid-style most-favored-customer clause and its welfare implication
Klibanoff, Peter; Kundu, Tapas - 2009
Reconciliation Act of 1990 included a rebate program that featured a most favored customer (MFC) clause. This clause guarantees that … Medicaid gets a fixed rebate on each unit of purchase by Medicaid consumers. The rebate is calculated as the difference between … discriminating monopolist in response to the imposition of MPP or APP rules. Under MPP, the minimum price gross of rebate always …
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