Database Submission—The ISMS Durable Goods Data Sets

Database Submission - The ISMS Durable Goods Data Sets

Durable Goods and Conformity

Is the variety of products supplied in markets a reflection of the diversity of consumers’ preferences? In this paper, we argue that the distribution of durable goods offered in markets tends to be compressed relative to the distribution of consumers’ underlying preferences. In particular, there are strong incentives for conformity in markets for durable goods. The reason for conformity is natu...

Perishable Durable Goods

We examine whether the Coase conjecture [7, 14, 4, 10] is robust against slight ability of commitment of the monopolist not to sell the durable goods to consumers. We quantify the commitment ability in terms of the speed that the durable goods perish, while keeping the time between the o ers small. We demonstrate that the slight commitment capability makes a substantial di erence by constructin...

Damaged Durable Goods

A durable-goods monopolist may use quality degradation as a commitment not to lower price in the future. The introduction of damaged goods expedites lowvaluation consumers’ future demands, and helps the firm to mitigate the Coasian time-consistency problem. In such a case, damaged goods are more likely to be observed relative to the static setting where only the price-discrimination aspect of q...

Archival metadata for durable data sets

The DARELUX project envisages long-term storage of hydrology measurement data in a permanent archive. In order to make the DARELUX hydrology data sets accessible in an unknown future, a future-proof metadata element set is wanted. An analysis of current standards and best practices for metadata lead to the choice of the metadata of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, with an addition of archi...