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This study evaluates the impact of Gas Cost Incentive Mechanisms on the consumer rates of natural gas throughout the Continental US. Panel data comes from a custom survey of state public service commissions and the annual survey EIA-176 by the US Department of Energy. After controlling for a group of incentive programs and other competition-enhancing efforts in the state and at the providers, the data shows no impact of the introduction of the Gas Cost Incentive Mechanisms on the level of consumer prices. This is consistent with the default hypothesis that all utilities minimize costs and that the limited sharing of earnings that the mechanisms offer does not induce further cost reductions. Interestingly, statewide consumer choice programs are found to lower prices significantly.
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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1999--
Marketers can now easily integrate consumer attitudinal and behavioral information to fuel better decision...
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... and Budget Review; Comment Request; Survey on Consumers'. Emotional and Cognitive Reactions t...consumers using a web-based panel of U.S. households to collect information on consu...
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Teens ages 13-17 spend about eight hours per week listening to their iPods and other portable digital media players, according to a new report from the NPD Group.
Adults aren't far behind, spending seven hours a week with their tunes, according to the NPD Group's mid-August survey of 6,405 members of the market researcher's online consumer panel.
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... available, have caused hyperbolic consumers (defined as those who lack self-control) to overea...A survey of the literature suggests that a dollar of food s...This results in a balanced panel of 19,368 male person-year observations and 17,678...
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OXFORD, England, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- By 2020, the E7 (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey) will hold a bigger share of world GDP than the G7, according to a study released by Oxford . The shift of economic power from West to East--accelerated by one of the world's worst recessions--is combining with leaps in technology to propel emerging market growth. The result is a virtuous circle as technology boosts local consumer income and demand, and drives the use of capital and resources.
This is one of several key findings in Oxford ' latest report, The New Digital Economy: How it will transform business, sponsored by AT&T, Cisco, Citi, PwC and SAP. To understand what these trends will mean for business, Oxford conducted a stu...
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..., according to a Market Tools/YoCrunch consumer opinion panel. (Photo: Business Wire). The survey,...
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Many people delay joining a pension plan until well into their working lives. We use a stochastic simulation model to show the cost of this delay in terms of the higher pension contributions that must eventually be paid to ensure an adequate retirement income. We find the levels of contributions required for individuals who start saving late are so high it is questionable whether they are affordable for anyone not on a high income. We also analyze the cost in terms of reduced pension of an interrupted labor market history, such as that experienced by someone who leaves work for a period to bring up a family.
... Association of Pension Funds Annual Survey of UK plans (NAPF, 2004) shows that where membersh... and Weinberg (2001) found, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Consumer Expendit...
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... economics, which treats health care as a consumer good. (1) In this framework, there is no shared re...According to the Kaiser Survey, 79% of workers in firms that offer health benefit..." Statistical Brief #72, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
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... of Survey Sampling Inc.'s SurveySpot consumer panel. Fielded with a nationally representative sa...