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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"forward looking behavior"”.
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The Price is Right: Examining Demand for Medical Care in the Presence of Deductibles
… whether this group of consumers is myopic or forward-looking by examining which price, current or expected end-of-year, women use when making purchasing decisions. The results show that women who give birth in a calendar year face lower expected end-of-year prices, but combined with other …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… a test for whether these patterns of voter behavior lead to efficient outcomes; however, the results are inconclusive. The second chapter. written jointly with Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Mark Cullen. investigates whether individuals exhibit forward looking behavior in their response …
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ESSAYS ON MONETARY ECONOMICS
… dynamics and money demands. Chapter 1 tests the forward-looking New Keynesian Phillips curve using a novel panel data set for the 50 U.S. states from year 1977 to 2005. Consistent with Gali and Gertler (1999), our results support a linkage between inflation and real unit labor cost, and reject a …
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Essays On Dynamic Updating Of Consumer Preferences
… can use rich information about their customers' behaviors to improve (1) the visual display of products on a webpage in online shopping, (2) predictions of new product adoption in online gaming, and (3) the timing of product release in online learning. First, we explore how consumers visually …
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A Dynamic Model of Land Use Change With Spatially Explicit Data
… period), expectations about future prices, and forward-looking behavior of the land operator are accounted for. For the estimation of the parameters of interest we use a pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator, the Nested Pseudo-Likelihood algorithm. We tested our model using satellite images and …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors? Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and a range of subsequent …
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Consumers' use of an expected future price as a reference: An investigation of the psychological and contextual antecedents
… contributes to marketing theory in the areas of behavioral pricing and consumers’ forward looking behaviors. In the area of behavioral pricing, this research contributes to the discussion on reference prices by identifying the factors that may lead to the use of expected future prices as a …
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Essays in health economics and public policy
… individuals impacts mortality and risky behavior. In Chapter 1, I study the local economic impacts of rural hospital closures in the United States. The analysis begins with a difference-in-differences approach using county-by-year panel data on all hospital closures from 2003 through …
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Topics in Hedonic Valuation
… contamination when accounting for learning and forward-looking behavior, which is more than double the simple hedonic estimate. Furthermore, parameters from my model can be used to calculate the average value of information provided by a site assessment.</p><p>The final chapter, joint work with …
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Essays on Large Panel Data Analysis
… also implies less inertia, it is associated with forward-looking behavior in price-setting. In contrast to the substantial degrees of estimated intrinsic persistence in the literature, we find that price-setting is markedly forward-looking at the disaggregated level; in approximately half of all …