This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the steam power revolution, electrification and the ICT revolution. The distinction between sectors producing and sectors using the new technology is emphasized. A major finding for all breakthroughs is that there is a long lag from the time of the original invention until a substanti...

Acknowledgements: This research was supported under a Joint Venture Agreement (06-JV099) between U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s, Rocky Mountain Research Station (Flagstaff, AZ) and the Department of Economics, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM). We thank Carl Edminster and Carolyn Sieg (RMRS) for research support. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of t...

This study uses a hedonic price method to estimate the effect of school quality on the housing market. Property sales records and elementary school data from Pitt County North Carolina are used to estimate the marginal effect of a given school quality unit. This study finds that higher student performance is associated with higher property values in the school district. For a one-point increase...

this research offers a comprehensive model to investigate the relationships between services quality, hedonic affect, perceived value and behavioral intentions. the purpose of this study is to build a broader understanding of the determinants of customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions throughout the restaurant services by incorporating the perceptions of hedonic affect in service delive...

2 Schedule (tentative) 2.1 Tuesday morning Brief introductions (1 min / person; you can prepare one slide, but free form is fine) Presentations I • Hinrich Schütze (introduction to working group, basically this document, 15+5) • Jay McClelland (45+15) • Maja Rudolph: Probabilistic modeling perspective (15+5) (Rudolph et al., 2016) • Rami Al-Rfou (and Marc Pickett?): Application perspective (15+...

Coalitional stability in hedonic games has usually been considered in the setting where agent preferences are fully known. We consider the setting where agent preferences are unknown; we lay the theoretical foundations for studying the interplay between coalitional stability and (PAC) learning in hedonic games. We introduce the notion of PAC stability — the equivalent of core stability under un...

This study shows that tempting food words activate simulations of eating the food, including simulations of the taste and texture of the food, simulations of eating situations, and simulations of hedonic enjoyment. In a feature listing task, participants generated features that are typically true of four tempting foods (e.g., chips) and four neutral foods (e.g., rice). The resulting features we...

The next generation digital signage (NGDS) has become extremely important as a new innovative information system that provides interactive information to users by capturing contextual information through the utilization of the state-of-the-art technologies. NGDS gets wide popularity from millions of people due to its advanced information services that fit in with the individual’s digitizing lif...