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Who Buys Surplus Meals? An Exploratory Survey in Danish Canteens

open access: yesFoods, 2023
Food waste has received increasing attention over the last decade, owing to its economic, environmental, and social impacts. Much of the existing research has investigated consumers’ buying behaviour towards sub-optimal and upcycle food, but surplus meal
Sujita Pandey   +4 more
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Consumer Surplus from Energy Transitions

open access: yesThe Energy Journal, 2018
Energy transitions have led to major advances in human wellbeing. However, little evidence exists about the scale of the net benefits. By developing a new method for identifying the demand curve, this paper estimates the consumer surplus associated with heating, transport and lighting over more than two hundred years and identifies the gains from key ...
R. Fouquet
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Price Controls and Consumer Surplus [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Price controls lead to misallocation of goods and encourage rent-seeking. The misallocation effect alone is enough to ensure that consumer surplus is always reduced by a price control in an otherwise-competitive market with convex demand if supply is more elastic than demand; or when demand is log-convex (e.g., constant-elasticity) even if supply is ...
Paul Klemperer, Jeremy Bulow
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Regulated Prices, Rent Seeking, and Consumer Surplus [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2012
Price controls lead to misallocation of goods and encourage rent seeking. The misallocation effect alone ensures that a price control always reduces consumer surplus in an otherwise-competitive market with convex demand if supply is more elastic than demand or with log-convex demand (e.g., constant elasticity) even if supply is inelastic.
Jeremy Bulow, Paul Klemperer
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Competitive Mixed Bundling and Consumer Surplus [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2007
Mixed bundling in imperfectly competitive industries causes some prices to rise and others to fall. This paper studies under what conditions mixed bundling works for or against the consumer interest. We find that if buyers incur firm‐specific costs or have shop‐specific tastes then competitive mixed bundling lowers consumer surplus overall and raises ...
John Thanassoulis
openaire   +4 more sources

What does Uber bring for consumers?

open access: yesData Science and Management, 2021
This paper estimates the consumer surplus that Uber brings for consumers. The estimation uses three datasets: individual-level choice dataset—the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data of 2008–2009, origin-destination level dataset—Uber data, and ...
Jiehong Qiu
doaj   +1 more source

ECONOMIC VALUATION AND THE DETERMINANTS OF DEMAND FACTORS OF BANDUNG STRAWBERRY AGROTOURISM, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2022
Strawberry agrotourism is the most extensive strawberry farming in Bandung, West Java. This agrotourism has the potential for nature, tourism, conservation, and regional economic potential.
Achmad RIZAL   +7 more
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Consumer surplus analysis using the Travel Cost Method (TCM) at the Petrus Kafiar Beach tourist attraction, Manokwari Regency, West Papua

open access: yesJournal of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, 2022
This study aims to determine the economic value of tourism objects and whether there is a consumer surplus at the Petrus Kafiar beach based on the Travel Cost Method (TCM).
Yuyun Rahayu, Ismi Haryati
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