Objective To establish patients' preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for different service models for suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT).Methods We analysed patient responses to a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire which had been targeted at patients in Leicester, UK. The...

The use of DCEs in healthcare continues to grow dramatically, as does the scope of applications across an expanding range of countries. There is increasing evidence that more sophisticated approaches to DCE design and analytical techniques are improving the quality of final outputs. That said,...

In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalization using a variety of approaches including discontinuities caused by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries...

The difference-in-differences (DID) approach that identifies the capitalization of amenities through changes in housing prices has been widely used in the literature of hedonic estimation in the past decade. However, concerns have been raised about how to interpret the estimated capitalization...

The impact that derivative trading has on the underlying security is essential to our understanding of security market behaviour, and important in the fields of market efficiency and pricing of such derivatives. This paper examines the impact that the introduction of exchange traded derivative...

In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalized value using various approaches including discontinuities caused by boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the...