We analytically characterize the effects of ownership and competition in the health care industry on quality provision, market coverage and optimal co-payment policy. A private monopoly selects a lower quality than a public supplier, and the socially optimal co-payment rate with a private monopoly exceeds that with a public monopoly. We establish that the optimal co-payment policy is invariant ...

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment scheme for the task varies across treatment groups. Compared to a piece-rate scheme, individuals in ...

Over-estimation of willingness to pay in contingent markets has been attributed largely to hypothetical bias. One promising approach for avoiding hypothetical bias is to tell respondents enough about such bias that they self-correct for it. A script designed for this purpose by Cummings and Taylor was used in hypothetical referenda that differed in payment amount. In comparisons with behavior o...

This paper studies the influence factors and the influence mechanism which effect Chinese adaption intention of mobile payment based on TAM model, theory of social psychology and innovation diffusion. It takes near-field mobile phone payment as practical example to do questionnaire survey with 623 samples in China and then the data were analyzed by SPSS20.0 and AMOS20.0 software .The result sho...

Household’s online consumption behaviors are affected by multi-dimensional factors. In this work, upon the financial survey data of Chinese family in 2017, households’online shopping influence factors analyzed empirical form, and mediating effects cash-free payment on households’decision for is measured. According to results therefrom, non-cash has certain effect process that households’charact...

conclusions willingness to pay can be affected by experiencing an accident, the distance of the daily trip, and helmet use. the cost of traffic injuries among motorcyclists shows that this rate is much higher than the global average. thus, expenditure should be made on effective initiatives such as the safety of motorcyclists. results the mean wtp was 888,110 irr (iranian rial) among motorcycli...

The long-term success of payment for environmental services (PES) schemes depends on adequate demand for services and sustainable financing. We examine the viability of using locally financed payments to protect watershed services in rural eastern Costa Rica. Using dichotomous choice contingent valuation, we measure households’ willingness to pay higher water bills for a local PES programme to ...