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Commitment contracts
Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean S.; Nelson, Scott - 2009
We review the theoretical and empirical literature on commitment devices. A commitment device is any arrangement, entered into by an individual, with the aim of making it easier to fulfill his or her own future plans. We argue that there is growing empirical evidence supporting the proposition...
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Food Price Reporting: Evaluation and Opportunities for Consumers
Lesser, William H. - 1981
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Explaining Productivity Differences in Grocery Warehouses
Lesser, William H.; Roller, Vaughn - 1981
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The Importance of Household Size in Explaining Low-Fat and Whole Milk Expenditures in the U.S.
Laraki, Karim; Ranney, Christine K. - 1986
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A Forecast for the Grocery Industry in the 1990s
McLaughlin, Edward W.; Hawkes, Gerard F. - 1986
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An Exploratory Modeling of the Decision Process of New Product Selection by Supermarket Buyers
McLaughlin, Edward W.; Rao, Vithala R. - 1987
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An Experimental Investigation of Alternatives to Expected Utility Using Pricing Data
Morone, Andrea; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2006
Experimental research on decision making under risk has until now always employed choice data in order to evaluate the empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar analysis which relies on pricing data instead of...
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Applying the payment card approach to estimate the WTP for green food in China
Tian, Xu; Yu, Xiaohua; Holst, Rainer - 2011
present a brief introduction of the payment card approach and introduce several methods to estimate the WTP with payment cards …, which we subsequently use to estimate WTP values regarding green vegetables, green meat and green eggs in China. Our results … indicate that consumers in big cities are willing to pay a higher premium for green food and that WTP values are relatively …
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Robustness of VSL Values from Contingent Valuation Surveys
Alberini, Anna - 2004
contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of … response effects, and internal validity of the WTP responses. We illustrate the importance of these factors using dichotomous …-choice and open-ended WTP data from four recent contingent valuation surveys. …
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Non-Marginal Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Tyranny of Discounting
Vermeylen, Koen - 2013
generations' willingness to pay (WTP) and the PV of their willingness to accept compensation (WTA); second, the discount rates … implicit in the computation of the PVs are endogenous, and rising (declining) over time for the future generations' WTP (WTA …
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