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Calling Party Pays or Receiving Party Pays?

Dewenter, Ralf; Kruse, Jörn - 2005

mobile telephony, using data on 84 countries from all over the world. Since the decision whether or not countries are likely …

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The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities

Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V.; Yi, Hanyi - 2018

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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior

Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2011

Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...

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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...

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Hedonic Prices in the German Market for Mobile Phones

Dewenter, Ralf; Haucap, Justus; Luther, Ricardo; … - 2004

This paper provides a hedonic price analysis of mobile telephones for the German market. We have assembled data on 302 different handsets from 25 manufacturers over the period from May 1998 to November 2003. While volume has a negative effect on the price of a mobile handset, the number of...

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Understanding the cell phone effect on motor vehicle fatalities using classical and Bayesian methods

Blattenberger, Gail; Fowles, Richard; Loeb, Peter D.; … - 2008

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New product development and firm value in mobile handset production

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2009

We study the effect of new product introduction on firm value. Using a unique sample on mobile phone handset introduction by 16 major handset manufacturers over 10 years, we distinguish between imitative product introduction and truly innovative product introduction. We find that while most...

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The role of product innovation on the diffusion of mobile telephony

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2009

had a significant impact on the global diffusion of mobile telephony. Our estimation results further suggest that earlier …

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Intergenerational effects in the diffusion of new technology: The case of mobile phones

Liikanen, Jukka; Stoneman, Paul; Toivanen, Otto - 2002

Many new technologies exhibit clear generational changes. The empirical literature on technology diffusion traditionally analyses the spread of new technologies generically. We use data from the mobile phone industry, where first-generation (1G) and second-generation technologies (2G) can be...

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Flexible estimation of random coefficient logit models of differentiated product demand

Kandelhardt, Johannes - 2023

and supply. Precise estimation of parameter estimates is therefore crucial to obtain realistic economic predictions. The … estimates of the structural parameters. With access to micro data, the approach allows for the estimation of highly flexible … patterns without substantially altering the procedure of estimation, making it relevant for practitioners. The BLP estimator is …

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