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individual claims data from a large Swiss insurance company to estimate the response in health care demand to the discrete price … type framework based on daily data to estimate the change in health care demand right before and right after the turn of … the year. We find that for individuals with high deductibles health care demand drops by 27%, which translates into an …
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price elasticity of demand for cannabis and implications for likely state excise and sales tax revenues. We use crowdsourced … elasticity of demand for cannabis. We use distances from growing areas to the major markets as a proxy for cost variations. We … obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for cannabis of -0.418, which suggests that legalizing and taxing …
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The positive correlation between the absolute price elasticity of telecommunications demand and the distance of the ….Next we look for various explanations of the distance dependence. We analyse the roles of the functional form of demand … quite basic utility maximization model of information demand also leads to distance dependent telecommunicationsdemand …
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estimate demand for residential broadband, using high-frequency data from subscribers facing a three-part tariff, and use the …
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We analyze competition among mobile operators with market influence. We consider that firms in this market are vertically differentiated as they own better network facilities and are often perceived as high quality firms. Even if, in general, firms cannot enjoy monopoly profits, it is shown that...
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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …
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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …
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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …
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This paper examines the effects of the introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) using data from Uruguay. MNP allows customers to switch mobile providers while retaining their phone number, thereby reducing switching costs and potentially enhancing competition. Our analysis reveals that...
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In this paper, we explore subsistence levels and price elasticities for residential electricity demand in Sweden. Using … a Stone-Geary functional form and unique Swedish data on residential electricity usage, we estimate demand Equations for … peak and off-peak demand. We find that the subsistence levels are larger during peak than off-peak, and that there is a …
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