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Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(2004)
Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such
as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this
paper we ...
Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects
(2001)
Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does notreflect the complex ...
Keeping Up with the Vaishyas: Caste and Relative Standing
(2005)
We investigate the importance of relative income within the Indian Caste system, using a choice experiment. We find that slightly more than half of the marginal utility of income comes from some kind of relative income ...
Using Cheap-Talk as a Test of Validity in Choice Experiments
(2004)
In two experiments on the choice of consumer goods, the estimated marginal willingness to pay for food are found to be lower in the survey version with cheap talk. Our test can be seen as a test of hypothetical bias. This ...
Airport Marginal Cost Pricing: Discussion and an Application to Swedish Airports
(2002)
We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that
includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications
on the profit ...
Preferences With and Without Prices - does the price attribute affect behavior in stated preference surveys?
(2004)
The experimental as well as the nonmarket valuation literature include several examples of how an introduced price can affect behavior in otherwise not expected ways. It has become standard to include a price vector as an ...
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
(2001)
This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to
valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent
valuation method, are ...
The Effects of Economic and Political Freedom on CO2 Emissions
(2003)
In this paper we investigate the effects of political and economic freedom on CO2 emissions. As far as we
know this is the first cross-country study of the relationship between economic freedom and
environmental quality. ...
How Much Do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?
(2001)
We find, using survey-experimental methods, that most individuals are concerned with
both relative income and relative consumption of particular goods. The degree of
concern varies in the expected direction depending on ...
Environmental Taxation in Airline Markets
(2000)
Over the last two decades many airline markets have been deregulated, resulting in increased competition and use of different types of networks. At the same time there has been an intense discussion on environmental taxation ...