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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"consumer surplus"”.
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Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being
… is now feasible. Specifically, changes in consumer surplus (compensating expenditure) are superior to changes in GDP as a measure of changes in consumer well-being, especially for digital goods. In practice, consumer surplus has been difficult to measure. We explore the potential for …
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Experimental studies of arbitration mechanisms and two-sided markets
… of different policies on price structure and consumer surplus in a two-sided market monopoly. In a laboratory environment, most of the monopolists charge a price below cost even if there is no threat of new competitors. A policy that imposes that the monopolist must charge the same price for …
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Essays on Economic Aspects of Corruption
… corruption and the total revenue, and increases consumer surplus.
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Funding of Higher Education: Variations in State Funding, Impacts of State Funding on Differential Tuition, and Variables Impacting Differential Tuition
… to test if theories of cost-based pricing and consumer surplus could be used to explain the use of differential tuition at the case study university. This study found that state support per resident state support student FTE vary greatly by university and that changes in funding can vary widely …
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How should we measure the digital economy?
… nonetheless use GDP as a proxy for well-being, consumer surplus is a better measure of consumer well-being. This is increasingly true in the digital economy where many digital goods have zero price and as a result, the welfare gains from these goods are not reflected in GDP or productivity …
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Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Commitment Disputes and Antitrust Law–An Analysis of Bundled Rebate Under FRAND Commitment Context
… Sherman Act Section Two, what are the effects on consumers? Two, if it is lawful, what are the effects on consumers? Three, based on the analyses and the answers of above, should we change the traditional standards for analyzing bundling or tying by the court? If yes, how do we change it? If not, …
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New applications in Revenue Management
… perspective as a policy maker, and the consumers' perspective (in terms of welfare). In this thesis, we first present a two-part tariff pricing problem faced by a satellite data provider. We estimate unobserved data with parametric density functions in order to generate instances of the …
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Four Essays on Applied Energy Economics and Policy
… without a capacity market. The consequences for consumers are assessed using three different measures: consumer surplus, probability of blackout and price volatility. We conclude that a capacity market is able to reduce extreme events. Under some circumstances, we show that a capacity market is …
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Essays in search for match quality
… reviews. In Chapter 1, I study how homogeneous consumers behave when they are considering to buy a new experience good, such as a pair of shoes, from a monopolist with an observable price. They have costly access to consumer reviews which are perfectly or imperfectly informative of match …
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Estimating the Economic Value of Rock Climbing in Smith Rock: An individual travel cost approach
… value of rock climbing in Smith Rock. I find consumer surplus of about $182.15 per rock climber or $21.6 million annually for all rock climbing visits.</p>
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The economic value of tourism and recreation in forested areas of Western Australia
… only and an attribution factor of 70% ). The consumer surplus value of the Valley of the Giants site, without accounting for the money spent on park entry fees to the site, is estimated at $50.84 million (measure based on the intrastate market only who account for 79% of the market and without …
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Open vs. closed Apple music distribution platform
… theory, comparative results of prices, profits, consumer surplus and social welfare among the three regimes are presented. The second model focuses on the effects of competition and compatibility between a profit-maximizing closed platform and an open, freely accessible platform. Given certain …
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The effect of competition in the healthcare industry
… that the merger would lead to a 5% decrease in consumer surplus, and that costs would need to decrease by at least 9% in order to bring consumer welfare back to the pre-merger levels. I also find that quality increases after the introduction of the QBP were enough to offset lower payments made …
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Visitors' willingness to pay for an entrance fee: a case study of marine parks in Malaysia
… of the visitors were first-timers. Therefore, consumer surplus cannot be obtained due to the insignificant result of the respondent’s total spending on the number of trips. However, using the Zonal Travel Cost Method (ZTCM), the average consumer surplus was found to be the same, RM1,000 for …
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Non-market valuation of urban ecosystem services in Penang, Malaysia
… urban green spaces, emphasizing increased consumer surplus with improvements. Overall, these findings contribute valuable insights into resident preferences, spatial influences, and economic implications, offering guidance for sustainable urban development to local policymakers.
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The economics of spring turkey hunting in Virginia
… value is called the net willingness to payor consumer surplus. It can be derived through several methods. In this study, the travel cost method (TCM) and the contingent valuation method (CVM) were used to derive this value. Using the TCM, the net economic value of spring turkey hunting in …
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Development of Nation Wide Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework for Aviation Decision Making Using Transportation Systems Analysis Model
… at individual airport and New York airspace. Consumer surplus is estimated based on demand and delay relationship using TSAM.
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Effects of Subsidies on Optimized Bus Transportation
… welfare. Social welfare is the sum of producer surplus (profit) and consumer surplus and provides a good measure of overall net benefits. The optimization models are developed for conventional and flexible route bus systems, connecting a Central Business District (CBD) and a suburban area. …
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Game theoretic formulations and solution methods for microeconomic market models
… capacity markets, emission permit auctions, and consumer surplus maximization; • an investigation of differential Nash games with mixed state-control constraints. Although the presented results are applicable to a broad class of games that satisfy certain structural properties, electricity …
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Default and renegotiation : financial structure and incentive in public-private partnership contracts
… and replacement. Under the assumptions that the consumer surplus is always greater than the realized cost, and that the social cost of public funds (the tax rate) is greater than the private agent's cost of capital, I show that: (1) Ex ante capital structure and control rights regime jointly …
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