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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"consumer welfare"”.
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Implications of sponsored data programs for profits and consumer welfare: models and analyses
… (CPs) to pay for the use of network capacity by consumers to access their contents. Whether such programs are socially desirable is being debated. While proponents of these programs claim that consumers, CPs, and MSPs can benefit from free data, more advertising revenue, and higher profit …
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Regulation of complex adaptive digital systems: optimizing competition and consumer welfare outcomes in Nigeria's converging telecommunications market
… examine the resulting dynamic impact on social welfare. The thesis provides a case study of Nigeria to examine these issues in a developing country context. The research questions examine the complexities of regulating dynamic markets to achieve often competing objectives of competition, …
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Information and Markets for Credence Goods
… information about credence goods impacts consumer welfare. Since consumers do not notice a change in quality of a credence good, a non-optimal consumption choice is made which impacts consumer welfare. I develop a framework to account for the welfare effects of consumer uncertainty and …
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The economics of personal bankruptcy
… thesis examines the effect of bankruptcy law on consumer borrowing and welfare. The thesis consists of four theoretical chapters and two empirical chapters. Chapter 1 presents a simple model of consumer borrowing where the repayment of debt is governed by a bankruptcy law which allows a consumer …
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Telkom and the South African economy : achieving the optimal relationship
… industry must be to maximise long-term consumer welfare for all South Africans. This paper argues that consumer welfare will be maximised only by dismantling the statutory monopoly structure and moving toward a highly competitive, privately owned telecommunications industry. The economic …
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System dynamics simulation of the telecom industry
… standardization of products, and behavior of consumer welfare. Main conclusions include the convexity of risk/return tradeoff in R&D investment under severe network externalities, as well as substitution as a matching device for innovation clockspeed in competing industries. Accordingly, it is …
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Is there a place for the public interest considerations in the competition legislation of a developing country like South Africa - generally, and specifically with respect to merger evaluation : an economic and legal analysis
… interest in the general sense will enhance consumer welfare, and in the specific sense whether its consideration enhances the stated economic goals of income and wealth distribution with the overarching goal of realising economic growth and development.
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The impact of price on alcohol consumption and the cost-effectiveness of a volumetric tax on alcohol in Australia
… of alcohol consumed, taxation revenue and consumer welfare, are examined within a framework for exploring efficiency; that is, whether a volumetric tax is able to reduce alcohol consumption for the same taxation revenue as collected currently, or for the same reduction in consumer welfare …
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Essays on Service Information, Retrials and Global Supply Chain Sourcing
… certain customer beliefs, it may however destroy consumer welfare or social welfare. When consumers can self-organize the timing of service visits, they may avoid long queues and choose to retry later. In the second essay, we study an observable queue in which consumers make rational join, balk …
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Three Essays in Firms, Trade and Development
… trade costs on firm sourcing decisions and consumer welfare depends on the relative size of search externalities in domestic and international markets. These externalities can be positive if firms share information about potential matches, or negative if the market is congested. Using unique …
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The political economy of government interventions in financial crises
… it can also increase rent-seeking and decrease consumer welfare. I consider two policy proposals for countering the reduction in welfare: better electoral accountability and limits on public debt. When used alone, neither policy can increase welfare for all countries in the banking union. When …
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Measuring Welfare Effects of the US-China Trade War Using General Equilibrium Models
… 10%. The analysis shows both the US and China's consumer welfare and GDP decreased across all scenarios, with a larger decrease in China. In addition, when exports from China and the United States decrease, there is an increase in exports from the ASEAN region. JEL Classification C68, F13, F11, …
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Emotional Reasoning and Decision Making: understanding and regulating emotions that serve people's goals
… adopting a healthy diet have the goal to enhance consumer welfare. The goal of this set of studies is to contribute to a research agenda that tries to support and enhance the life of consumers, through the exploration of emotional intelligence as a new possible avenue of research related to …
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Antitrust in Times of Information Technology: An Analysis of Big Tech Monopoly Cases
… for competition, technological innovation and consumer welfare. This ranges from price discrimination, limiting consumer choices to the unethical use of data. The particular nature of information technology, with its network effects and negligible marginal costs, incentivizes and facilitates …
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How are price fixing agreements unfair?
… labyrinth of its own making. The assumption that consumer welfare and efficiency is the sole concern of antitrust law conflicts with what people view as unfair about antitrust law. The present thesis advances the understanding of antitrust law by providing some theoretical considerations and …
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Supply response to consumer inertia : strategic pricing in Medicare Part D
A growing literature has documented evidence that consumers in health insurance markets are inertial, or behave as though they face substantial switching costs in choosing a health insurance plan. I investigate whether the private firms that provide prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… network reconstruction, studying firms and consumers' response to this industry shock. Chapter 3 challenges the current merger policy by proposing a selective entry mechanism.</p><p>The first chapter examines the impact of new car dealer closures on surviving dealers' profitability and …
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NO LONGER GREEN WITH ENVY: HOW TURNING EMOTIONS INTO OBJECTS ENABLES CONSUMERS TO PHYSICALLY DESTROY THEM
… is an unpleasant emotion that occurs when a consumer sees others as being more advantaged than him- or herself, in terms of achievements and/or possessions. Envy may drive the envious consumer to 'compete' with the envied-target through purchase of similar or better products; for that reason, …
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study
… competition due to reduced search costs for consumers and minimal differentiation in product offerings. Evidence shows that firms around the world are practicing price fixing and price obfuscation to reduce price competition for higher profits. This paper cites several examples from Tmall and …
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