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Weighted congestion games with separable preferences

Milchtaich, Igal - 2009

Players in a congestion game may differ from one another in their intrinsic preferences (e.g., the benefit they get from using a specific resource), their contribution to congestion, or both. In many cases of interest, intrinsic preferences and the negative effect of congestion are (additively...

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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...

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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010

measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice …-leisure space. We then discuss how sensitive the assessment of a hypothetical tax reform is to the choice of metric. The chosen tax …

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Reciprocity and Workers' Tastes for Representation

Jirjahn, Uwe; Lange, Vanessa - 2011

Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees...

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Major public debt reductions: Lessons from the past, lessons for the future

Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; Zimmermann, Lilli - 2010

The financial crisis of 2008/2009 has left European economies with a sizeable public debt stock bringing back the question what factors help to reduce these fiscal imbalances. Using data for the period 1985-2009 this paper identifies factors determining major public debt reductions. On average,...

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Self-regulation of pollution: The role of market structure and consumer information

Garvie, Devon A. - 1997

A Cournot-Nash oligopoly model is used to study self-regulation of industrial pollution emissions. Consumers have environmental preferences such that demand is decreasing in their knowledge of industrial emissions. Symmetric firms choose output and emission control input levels. Under...

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Estimating the benefits of traffic calming on through routes: A choice expermiment approach

Garrod, Guy D.; Scarpa, Riccardo; Willis, Ken G. - 2000

paper reports the results of a series of choice experiments that were used to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) of a … choice experiments. These revealed that local people had a positive WTP for a reduction in the negative impacts of road …

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Modelling zero bids in contingent valuation surveys

Strazzera, Elisabetta; Scarpa, Riccardo; Calia, Pinuccia; … - 2000

When modelling data generated from a discrete choice contingent valuation question, the treatment of zero bids affects …

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What do we gain by being discrete? An introduction to the econometrics of discrete decision processes

Rota, Paola - 2001

explicitly take into account the existence of corner solutions by considering a discrete-time-discrete-choice dynamic structural …

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On Contextually Embedded Choices

Lanzi, Diego - 2004

Starting from Amartya Sen's works on rational behaviour, in this essay a contextually-embedded choice theory is … presented. Using concepts and tools from poset mathematics, we show how to inject in rational choice theory cultural and social … effects. Specifically, we define some choice super-structures seen as choice sets' transformations imposed by accepted …

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