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This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand ….Information on the determinants of consumer demand is of pivotal importance for the efficiency and efficacy ofpublic and private … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to …
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This note explores the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and the R&D intensity of the product. We … cost of production. Within this framework, sectors with a higher R&D intensity show a lower price elasticity of demand …. This proposition is confirmed by an empirical investigation of export demand for manufactured goods from major …
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demand for first-generation wireless services using (i) consumerlevel panel data from a real world pricing experiment and (ii … conditional usage probability small. Demand for first-generation wireless services was highly elastic and the welfare gains to an … (early) adopter moderate. Pricing and taxation of wireless services had a large suppressing effect on demand …
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focus on price-induced behavioral response among major meat categories (beef, pork, and poultry), fish, and the emerging … are estimated via a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model, where we instrument the endogenous prices by the average …-quality PBMS products. We also show that PBMS are price complements for beef, poultry, and fish. This study contributes to the …
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Considerable empirical research exists on donations in the US and their determinants, including estimations of the income and price elasticity of giving. By contrast, less is known about the determinants of countries with an extensive welfare state. We address this deficiency by studying the...
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This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other …
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Background: This paper contributes to the evidence-base on prices and alcohol use by presenting meta-analytic summaries of price and income elasticities for alcohol beverages. The analysis improves on previous meta-analyses by correcting for outliers and publication bias. Methods: Adjusting for...
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plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … that the reform led to a sixfold increase in an individual's switching probability and a threefold demand elasticity …
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment with 2,440 subjects in which we exogenously vary the price of contributing to the closest empirical counterpart of an infinitely large public good, climate change mitigation. We find that the price effect is robust and negative, but quantitatively weak,...
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