Browsing by Subject "Public goods"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The effect of bureaucratic structure on individual contributions to a public good is examined using a laboratory experiment. It is proposed that when individuals are placed in the context of an ideal-typical bureaucracy ...
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(2022-05-18)This dissertation examines three topics in the field of public and health economics using quasi-experimental methods. The first two topics focus on nonprofit institutions and charitable giving, and the last one is about ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)Consumer valuation decisions are conceptualized as occurring in a six-stage cognitive valuation process. The six-stage model is advocated as an appropriate framework for economic analyses of consumer valuation decisions. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)This study considered ways in which price expectations (reference prices) might be influenced through managerial intervention so that expected prices could be made consistent with actual costs associated with service ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The expanding interest in the private delivery of many public goods and services suggests public provision of public goods need not represent a dominant institution. Basic analysis of private market provision of excludable ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The methods of estimating the distribution of public good benefits among various individuals have long been of interest to both academic economists and government policy makers for the purpose of analyzing the impact of ...
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(2015-07-28)The three essays in this thesis foster the identification of unexpected influences of different institutional arrangements on economic outcomes. The first two essays, experimental in nature, analyze the impact of two ...