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Adoption of Superior Technology in Markets with Heterogeneous Network Externalities and Price Competition

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

In this paper we investigate whether markets with heterogeneous network externalities can belocked-in by old technologies even if superior technologies are available. Heterogeneous networkexternalities are present when some consumers care more about the size of the market share of agood than...

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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Industry and Innovation', 2011, 18(3), 317-334.<P> This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows...</p>

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Cut-point Shift and Index Shift in Self-reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test fordifferential reporting in ordered...

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Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities?

d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Doorslaer, Eddy van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by...

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Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective Household Labour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Bloemen, Hans G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining …

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On Taxation in a Two-Sector Endogenous Growth Model with Endogenous Labor Supply

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper examines the effects of taxation on long-run growthin a two-sector endogenous growth model with (i) physical … theeffects of taxation - including income taxation, capital incometaxation and labor income taxation - distinguishes between … oflabor supply, taxation of income may induce agents to spend moreor less time on leisure activities. In the case of …

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