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Haavio, Markus; Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona - 2009

We analyse the determination of taxes on harmful goods when consumers have self-control problems. We show that under reasonable assumptions, the socially optimal corrective tax exceeds the average distortion caused by self-control problems. Further, we analyse how individuals with self-control...

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Do Google searches help in nowcasting private consumption? A real-time evidence for the US

Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich; Podstawski, Maximilian - 2010

In this paper, we investigate whether the Google search activity can help in nowcasting the year-on-year growth rates of monthly US private consumption using a real-time data set. The Google-based forecasts are compared to those based on a benchmark AR(1) model and the models including the...

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Enrolment in micro life and health insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka

Bendig, Mirko; Arun, Thankom - 2011

Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka,...

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Longitudinal analysis of generic substitution

Dalen, Dag Morten; Locatelli, Marilena; Strøm, Steinar - 2010

cholesterol. The two brand-name products on the Norwegian markets were Provachol (atc code C10AA03) and Zocor (atc code C10AA01 … find that prices have a negative impact on transitions in the sense that an increase in the brand price will reduce the … transition from generics to brand and likewise an increase in the generic price will reduce the transition from brand to generics. …

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Household choices, circumstances and equity of access to basic health and education services in the Philippines

Capuno, Joseph J.; Kraft, Aleli D. - 2010

In developing countries like the Philippines, a major policy concern is the inequity in access to health and education services. In this paper, we investigate the effects of factors over which households have control ('choices') or none ('circumstances') on their access to basic services. Our...

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A multi-level choice theory

Fabella, Raul V. - 2010

The Great Recession has called into question many tenets of Neo-classical Microeconomics. Neo-classical theory allows each agent only one fixed type, homo economicus, while not denying other possible types as in adverse selection. We propose that economic agents not only choose their market...

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Price search, bargaining and agglomeration

Kopp, Andreas - 1994

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Playing with the good guys: A public good game with endogenous group formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start of high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will selfselect into groups committed to charitable...

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Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data

Blundell, Richard; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - 2008

This paper concerns the decomposition of income risk into permanent and transitory components using repeated cross-section data on income and consumption. Our focus is on the detection of changes in the magnitudes of variances of permanent and transitory risks. A new approximation to the optimal...

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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276092