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A discrete-choice model approach to optimal congestion charge
Strøm, Steinar (contributor); Vislie, Jon (contributor) - 2008
We model the choice of transportation mode in a simplified Hotelling-like city, with a fixed number of total travellers, fixed road capacity and with no trade-off between when to travel and the time spent in a queue. A person that chooses to take her own car will inflict a congestion cost on all...
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Consumer Demand in Two-Sided Markets and the Platform-Specific Nature of Externalities
Ten Kate, Adriaan - 2019
We propose a general framework for consumer demand in two-sided markets, modelling the way externalities between … externalities and establish the conditions for the existence of critical mass. The outstanding feature that distinguishes two … externalities. It is this platform-specific nature that makes skewed pricing profitable. When externalities are market-wide, skewed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871171
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On the emergence of overcompliance with endogenous environmental standards and patronising consumers
Lambertini, Luca; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2012
We propose a model of environmental overcompliance in a duopoly setting where consumers are environmentally concerned and may patronise the product they buy, firms set their green investment to abate the impact of productivity on pollution and a government sets the environmental standard with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731235
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Consumer Information and Firm Pricing : Negative Externalities from Improved Information
Anderson, Simon P.; Renault, Régis - 2000
We analyze the effect of consumer information on firm pricing in a model where consumers search for prices and matches with products. We consider two types of consumers. Uninformed consumers do not know in advance their match values with firms, whereas informed consumers do. Prices are lower the...
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Is There an Energy Paradox in Fuel Economy? A Note on the Role of Consumer Heterogeneity and Sorting Bias
Bento, Antonio M. - 2014
Previous literature finds that consumers tend to undervalue discounted future energy costs in their purchase decisions for energy-using durables. We argue that this finding could result from ignoring consumer heterogeneity in empirical analyses as opposed to true undervaluation. In the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068984
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Is There an Energy Paradox in Fuel Economy? A Note on the Role of Consumer Heterogeneity and Sorting Bias
Bento, Antonio M. - 2014
Previous literature finds that consumers tend to undervalue discounted future energy costs in their purchase decisions for energy-using durables. We argue that this finding could result from ignoring consumer heterogeneity in empirical analyses as opposed to true undervaluation. In the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068999
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When Nudges Aren't Enough : Incentives and Habit Formation in Public Transport Usage
Gravert, Christina Annette - 2019
In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,000 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can be in uenced by behavioral interventions and by economic incentives. Despite their effectiveness in other domains, we find a tightly estimated zero for social norms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858017
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When nudges aren't enough : incentives and habit fomation in public transport usage
Gravert, Christina; Olsson Collentine, Linus - 2020
In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,500 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can be influenced by behavioral interventions and by economic incentives. Despite their effectiveness in other domains, we find a tightly estimated zero for social norms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299541
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Consumers' response to price increases : evidence from gasoline markets
Tsanko, Ilona - 2024
Understanding how consumers respond to price increases is key when designing price-related policies. Using microdata on vehicle usage and paid fuel prices, I analyze consumers' response, focusing on three channels of mitigation: distance driven, fuel efficiency, and search. On average, consumers...
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Can social comparisons and moral appeals increase public transport ridership and decrease car use?
Gessner, Johannes; Habla, Wolfgang; Wagner, Ulrich J. - 2023
In a field experiment with 341 participants, we study whether social comparisons, either in isolation or in combination with a climate-related moral appeal, can change the use of public and car-related transportation. We do so in the context of a mobility budget offered to employees of a large...
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