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Discrete/continuous models of consumer demand

W. Michael Hanemann
- 01 May 1984 - 
- Vol. 52, Iss: 3, pp 541-562
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This article is published in Econometrica.The article was published on 1984-05-01. It has received 786 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Demand curve.

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Estimation of household preferences for long distance telecommunications carrier

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the interactive effects of these carrier attributes and customer demographics upon the selection of carrier and find that households assured of the convenience of 1 + dialling for their chosen carrier in equal access areas display more rational and sophisticated decision making.
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Assimilation-contrast theory in action: Operationalization and managerial impact in a fundraising context

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a multi-step strategy to operationalize the assimilation-contrast theory in a fundraising context, and reported the results of a large field experiment in which a charity used anchors to influence the behavior of 23,500 of its donors.
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Designing Freemium: Balancing Growth and Monetization Strategies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model based on microfoundations and empirically test it to understand the dynamics of consumers' plan choice, usage, upgrade, and referral behavior in the freemium setting using a novel panel data set from a leading cloud-based storage service.
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Price negotiation in differentiated products markets: Evidence from the Canadian mortgage market

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measure market power in a decentralized market where contracts are determined through a search and negotiation process, and show that the mortgage industry has many institutional features which suggest competitiveness: homogeneous contracts, negotiable rates, and common lending costs across lenders.
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The valuation of environmental externalities : a stated preference case study on traffic noise in Lisbon

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a methodology centered on the Stated Preference-choice (SP-choice) method for valuing traffic noise when individuals are in their homes, assessing the nature and extent of households' heterogeneity of preferences for quiet.
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Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error

James J. Heckman
- 01 Jan 1979 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the bias that results from using non-randomly selected samples to estimate behavioral relationships as an ordinary specification error or "omitted variables" bias is discussed, and the asymptotic distribution of the estimator is derived.
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Modeling the choice of residential location

TL;DR: The problem of translating the theory of economic choice behavior into concrete models suitable for analyzing housing location and methods for controlling the size of data collection and estimation tasks by sampling alternatives from the full set of alternatives are discussed.
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An Econometric Analysis of Residential Electric Appliance Holdings and Consumption

Jeffrey A. Dubin, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1984 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a subsample of the 1975 survey of 3249 households carried out by the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies (WCMS) for the Federal Energy Administration for the purpose of testing the statistical exogeneity of appliance dummy variables typically included in demand for electricity equations.
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Urban travel demand - a behavioral analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate economic concepts of supply and demand equilibrium for urban activities using the concept of traffic equilibrium within transportation networks and describe the cutting edge in travel demand analysis using the latest methods.