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Showing 1 to 20 of 352 for “"Hedonic"”.
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Topics in Hedonic Valuation
… values are not directly apparent. As a result, Hedonic methods have been employed as a tool to recover household Marginal Willingness To Pay (MWTP) for these goods to inform policy-making given constrained public resources. This thesis consists of three chapters tied to the Hedonic valuation of …
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Psychological biases affect hedonic ratings
… and lower experimental power. Reports on various hedonic scales associated with psychological biases induced by sample presentation are limited in the literature. An appropriate experimental protocol could enable sensory scientists to accurately determine if a product is more or less liked. …
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Hedonic rating using human bivariate conceptualization
… consumer acceptance test, such as the 9-point hedonic scale, the food action rating scale, the labeled affective magnitude scale, and the hybrid hedonic scale were developed using the traditional bipolar conceptualization. Sensory scientists have continued to use bipolar conceptualization and …
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A Hedonic Study of Prepackaged Software
This study verifies previous econometric research which found that spreadsheet prices, when adjusted for quality improvement, decline over the period 1986-1993. New econometric work is presented for prepackaged word processing software. Using objective criteria for variable selection, the model …
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The hedonic valuation of South African wine brands
… brands. Deploying blind and sighted versions of hedonic quality it defines (1) ‘functional’ wine brands as those with consistently higher levels of intrinsic quality as proxied by their blind tasting scores, and (2) placebo-type ‘symbolic’ wine brands as those with statistically significant …
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Methodological advances in benefit transfer and hedonic analysis
… non-market valuation: benefit transfer (BT) and hedonic analysis. While the first and the third chapters address the challenge of estimating the societal benefits of prospective environmental policy changes by adopting locally weighted regression (LWR) technique in an environmental valuation …
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Hedonic price indices for military vehicles and trailers
… proposes an alternative method based on hedonic analysis, and develops price indices for U.S . Army vehicles using the proposed method. Prices indices are estimated for combat vehicles, and trucks and trailers. The period covered is 1981 through 1985. The estimated hedonic price indices …
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Impact of hedonic integration with pain and pleasure stimuli
… experiment system provides a mechanism to study hedonic sensory integration in human subjects with specific focus on interaction between pain and pleasure. The system allows creation of stimuli segments with varying degrees of intensity and change based on subject's own discomfort thresholds and …
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Effects of Hedonic and Utilitarian Shopping Satisfaction on Mall Consumption
… expects a consumption experience with both hedonic and utilitarian rewards during a single visit to the mall. The orchestrating of both hedonic and utilitarian benefits in one visit challenges mall management and retailers to deliver the maximum shopping experience. This study seeks to …
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The Economic Impact of the Oso Landslide: A Hedonic Approach
… homes from 2004-2017, this research uses a hedonic property model to measure consumer willingness to pay for a home in a mass-wasting hazard area after the Oso landslide and finds that home values in Snohomish County decreased by 11% after the Oso disaster.
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Hedonic Price Analysis of Cool Climate Wines in Selected Regions
<p> Many economists have estimated hedonic price models for wine. The price of wine is thought to represent the various characteristics that differentiate each bottle, assuming that the majority of consumers use price as a signal of quality. The objective of this paper is to identify and examine …
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Hedonic Valuation of Environmental Amenities and Issues of Model Selection
… of the model with the standard two-step hedonic model reveals that the benefit estimates are consistently lower in the case of the former.
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Spatial Dimensions of Economic Valuation: A Comparison of Hedonic Models
Using the recently developed HAC estimator, this dissertation provides a better sense of the precision of the estimates of the MWTP form alternative models. Aggregate benefits for the SCAB region from a 0.1 ppb reduction in OZ levels add up to about 8 billion dollars if multiplier effects are taken …
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Working conditions, wage-rates and human capital: a hedonic study.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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Measuring the value of transit access for Dallas County: A hedonic approach.
Advocates of urban light rail transit argue that positive developments around station area(s) should offset the costs of implementing a transit system by creating more livable communities and enhance surrounding residential property values. In some cases, decreased urban landscape aesthetics have …
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Comprehensive wealth measurement and spatial hedonic analysis : social capital and social amenities
The last decade has seen a growing interest in the concept of comprehensive wealth, which is defined as including intangible and non-market as well as tangible and market assets. This dissertation responds to this rising interest by developing explicit concepts, indicators, and sources of data …
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The Economic Impacts of Forest Pathogens in Washington State: A Hedonic Approach
… estate market. Specifically, I estimate a set of hedonic fixed effects models to control for omitted variable bias and spatial autocorrelation. Results show statistically significant impacts on property values in the presence of species specific and aggregate defoliation, suggesting new …
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The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk: Some Implications for Hedonic Damages
… this is recognized, it becomes clear that the hedonic value-of-life should not be interpreted as a measure of ex post accident costs. Rather, the hedonic value-of-life is an attempt to calculate a remedy that will cause the potential tort-feasor to associate with behaviors that engender risk …
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Impacts of sustainable streets on housing prices: a hedonic analysis in Chicago
… this is the first paper that has conducted a hedonic analysis on a sustainable street program.
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