Collective Goods, Free Riding and Country Brands: The Chinese Experience

Free-Riding and Luxury Brands on the Internet

Luxury is a complex industrial activity whose products combine strong vertical differentiation and a meaning value for the consumer. Luxury offers experiences, the economy of which is based on signalling. This gives rise to intense intangible investment internalized by trademark law and vertical restraints in distribution. However, the extent of the added value and the power of externalities as...

Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear-cut evidence for the existe...

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...

Study on the Allocating and Planning of Brands and Goods

By the field survey, we obtained corresponding data, and established the mathematical model by the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The mathematical model was used to analyze the rationality of the brand introduction and goods allocating and planning in the marketplace in order to enhance the competitive level of the business area, offer more shopping choices when promoting citizens’ purchas...