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Measuring consumer well-being from using zero price digital services : the case of navigation apps and location-based services

Sobolewski, Maciej - 2021

. In the experiment, the respondents are confronted with a range of location-sharing conditions set by a navigation … from using basic satellite navigation without location-based functionalities is estimated at 8.06 EUR per month. Adding …Digital maps and navigation applications are considered an essential tool by 70% of smartphone users. As these apps …

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Monetäre Bewertung der Netzzuverlässigkeit für eine effiziente Qualitätsanreizregulierung

Merz, Carina - 2008

Ziel dieses Papers ist es, im Hinblick auf die in Deutschland geplante Einführung eines Qualitätsanreizsystems bei Elektrizitätsnetzbetreibern, eine geeignete Methode für die hierfür notwendige Bewertung der Netzzuverlässigkeit gleichbedeutend mit den wohlfahrtswirksamen Stromausfallkosten...

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The welfare effects of mobile internet access : evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home

Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...

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Reference pricing systems on the pharmaceutical market

Unsorg, Maximiliane - 2018

Constantly rising expenditures for pharmaceuticals require government intervention in firms' pricing decisions. To this end, reference pricing systems are a frequently employed regulatory mechanism. This paper considers a duopoly market with vertically differentiated firms under different...

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Individual behavior in the cash/shadow economy in Australia : facts, empirical findings and some mysteries

Schneider, Friedrich; Braithwaite, Valerie A.; … - 2001

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Validity of discrete-choice experiments : evidence for health risk reduction

Telser, Harry (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - October 2003, revised: February 2005

There is growing interest in discrete-choice experiment (DCE) as a method to elicit consumers' preferences in the health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However, its external validity in the health care domain has not...

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Valuing Policy Characteristics and New Products using a Simple Linear Program

Banzhaf, H. Spencer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The Random Utility Model (RUM) is a workhorse model for valuing new products or changes in public goods. But RUMs have been faulted along two lines. First, for including idiosyncratic errors that imply unreasonably high values for new alternatives and unrealistic substitution patterns. Second,...

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Forecasting adoption of ultra-low-emission vehicles using the GHK simulator and Bayes estimates of a multinomial probit model

Daziano, Ricardo A.; Achtnicht, Martin - 2012

In this paper we use Bayes estimates of a multinomial probit model with fully flexible substitution patterns to forecast consumer response to ultra-low-emission vehicles. In this empirical application of the probit Gibbs sampler, we use stated-preference data on vehicle choice from a...

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Accounting for uncertainty in willingness to pay for environmental benefits

Daziano, Ricardo A.; Achtnicht, Martin - 2013

Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze Bayesian confidence sets for quantifying uncertainty in the determination of willingness to pay for carbon...

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action : hypothetical choices and real decisions in Medicare Part D

Kesternich, Iris; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - 2012

In recent years, consumer choice has become an important element of public policy. One reason is that consumers differ in their tastes and needs, which they can express most easily through their own choices. Elements that strengthen consumer choice feature prominently in the design of public...

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