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Measuring consumer well-being from using zero price digital services: The case of navigation apps and location-based services
Sobolewski, Maciej - 2021
. In the experiment, the respondents are confronted with a range of location-sharing conditions set by a navigation … from using basic satellite navigation without location-based functionalities is estimated at 8.06 EUR per month. Adding …Digital maps and navigation applications are considered an essential tool by 70% of smartphone users. As these apps …
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Loyalty programs and consumer behaviour : the impact of FFPs on consumer surplus
Behrens, Christiaan; McCaughey, Nathalie - 2015
Frequent Flier Programs (FFPs) are said to impact airline consumer behaviour such that revenue of sponsoring airlines increases. Prior research relies on aggregate industry data to study FFPs. We examine the impact of FFPs on individual consumer behaviour in a quasi-natural experimental set-up...
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Partitioned Pricing and Consumer Welfare
Tran, Kevin Ducbao - 2020
In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that...
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Partitioned pricing and consumer welfare
Ducbao Tran, Kevin - 2020
In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258923
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Consumer Welfare
Jayawardhana, Jayani - 2013
The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well. In this paper, I develop and estimate a structural model...
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Reference pricing systems on the pharmaceutical market
Unsorg, Maximiliane - 2018
Constantly rising expenditures for pharmaceuticals require government intervention in firms' pricing decisions. To this end, reference pricing systems are a frequently employed regulatory mechanism. This paper considers a duopoly market with vertically differentiated firms under different...
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The value of the internet for consumers
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2014
Several studies have examined the market value of paid-for internet services and internet access. This paper estimates the value of leisure time spent online for which the consumer pays no monetary price and which has become increasingly important as a leisure activity. We apply a methodology...
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Challenges to the Conventional Wisdom About Mergers and Consumer Welfare in a Converging Internet Marketplace
Frieden, Rob - 2020
This paper identifies substantial flaws in how U.S. government agencies and courts assess the impact of proposed mergers by firms using broadband networks to reach consumers. Based on current market definitions, consumer impact assessments and economic doctrine, antitrust enforcement agencies...
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The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Caps on Consumer Welfare : An Event Study Analysis
Evans, David S. - 2013
The cost to merchants of taking payment on debit cards declined by more than $7 billion annually as a result of the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, while the effective cost to issuers of providing debit card services to consumers...
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The impact of food price volatility on consumer welfare in Cameroon
Kane, Gilles Quentin; Mabah Tene, Gwladys Laure; … - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then...
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