Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Marginal Willingness to Pay"”.
-
Innovation incentives and competition in the hard disk drive industry
… we estimate logit utilities that describe the marginal willingness to pay for quality improvements. One aspect of utility is that the willingness to pay for faster access time to data may be initially low but increases over time. The firms' decisions to introduce faster access time are partly …
-
Natural Resource Needs Assessment Survey and a Nonmarket Valuation Study of Nevada's Big Game Hunts
… detail how the information collected corresponds to the Natural Resource Conservation Service farm planning tool known as SWAPA. Fourth, with data from the survey, we use nonmarket valuation methods to estimate the marginal willingness to pay for big game hunting trip attributes including: the …
-
Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana
… in sub-Saharan Africa as an important strategy to help address micronutrient malnutrition. However, there has been little research on factors that could play decisive roles in their successful introduction. This paper investigates the determinants of consumer acceptance of biofortified …
-
Impacts of sustainable streets on housing prices: a hedonic analysis in Chicago
To understand the local benefits and costs of sustainable streets, this study uses housing transaction data in Chicago to examine the impact of those projects on the sale prices of nearby residential properties. Specifically, I would like to explore the following questions: First, is the sale price …
-
Valuation of quality determinants in consumer demand for automobile: A hedonic price approach
… focus on two non-physical attributes of an automobile such as safety and comfort. Consumer valuation of automobile attributes is of interest to car manufacturers who supply the characteristics, consumers who purchase them, and policy makers who regulate the automobile. This study uses two …
-
Economic Valuation of Water Quality Improvements in New Zealand
… valuation techniques has made it possible to estimate these values. In this thesis, the travel cost random utility model and fishing choice data from the National Angling Survey are used to assess the benefits of better water quality for trout anglers in the Rotorua Lakes and a choice …
-
A Choice Experiment Study of Household Investor Preferences for Renewable Energy Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana
Inadequate access to electricity remains one of the pressing challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ensuring universal access by 2030 will require additional sources of finance as current investment volumes are inadequate. Increasingly, the integral role that household investors can play is being …
-
MEASURING EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY REGULATIONS IN U.S. HOUSEHOLDS
… climate change and its costs, which is estimated to be about 3.6% of GDP by the end of 21st century (NRDC, 2008). The second chapter investigates how projected July temperatures will increase the demand for electricity in the U.S. by 0.8%, while projected January temperatures will decrease the …
-
Valuation methods of biodiversity
… for incorporating biodiversity and its value into already existing notions of capital and decision-making can be expected to rise as well. Since there are no markets for the state of biodiversity, non-market valuation methods need to be employed. Ecosystem services can serve as a link connecting …
-
The Non-Market Value of Biodiversity Enhancement in New Zealand's Planted Forests
… variability, choice determinism and learning. To estimate the non-market value of biodiversity enhancement, a random parameters logit model with error components is used to analyse choice data collected from 209 respondents across New Zealand. The panel nature of the choice data set is …
-
Measuring the impact of climate change on Britain
Adaptation to past changes in the climate of Britain may be indicative of the way in which society will respond to future climate change. The long run costs associated with climate change are, once full adaptation has occurred, not obviously detrimental. Furthermore even if the frequency of …
-
Big data approaches to peer-to-peer markets and welfare estimation
The first chapter provides a road-map to estimate agents well-being in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) markets. P2P markets allow small suppliers with limited capital to enter markets that were traditionally occupied by large firms. This feature provides a potential decentralized distribution of opportunities. …
-
Estimating demand for environmental goods and services, now and later
… the behavioral response of winter recreationists to marginal changes in mountain snowpack. I make three primary contributions in this chapter: 1) I develop a new method to estimate elasticities for climate amenities by matching the spatial and temporal variation in the level of the amenity with …
-
Addressing water scarcity in urban Tanzania: household preferences, behavioural interventions, and technological adoption
Access to safe drinking water remains a critical challenge in developing countries. As of 2022, only 31% of the population has access to safely managed drinking water, while the rest rely on basic, unimproved, or surface water sources. This issue is particularly severe in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's …
-
Topics in Hedonic Valuation
… goods such as clean air and water are integral to human quality of life. However, because these amenities are not priced, their monetary 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 …
-
Three essays in applied market design
The market design approach to economics recognizes that markets do not arise naturally but are rather an amalgamation of various rules and norms. From this perspective, an economist can reverse engineer the rules that are consequential to a functioning market and evaluate the effects of those rules …