This paper presents a novel implementation of Translog-II. Translog-II is a Windows-oriented program to record and study reading and writing processes on a computer. In our research, it is an instrument to acquire objective, digital data of human translation processes. As their predecessors, Translog 2000 and Translog 2006, also Translog-II consists of two main components: Translog-II Superviso...

Using the most recently available data, this paper estimates the price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in the United States from a semiparametric smooth coefficient model. The econometric approach provides more flexibility by allowing functional coefficients to accommodate heterogeneity in gasoline demand. Instrumental variables are used to correct for the potential endogeneity of th...

With the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...

which are more prevalent in low-income communities (5–7). The reasons underlying the suboptimal intake of fruits and vegetables in the United States are likely to be varied and complex and require much further investigation. I agree that food price influences food choice and that energy cost is inversely related to energy density. However, it does not necessarily follow that energy cost is the ...

Peer to peer networks will become an increasingly important distribution channel for consumer information goods and may play a role in the distribution of information within corporations. Our research analyzes optimal membership rules for these networks in light of positive and negative externalities additional users impose on the network. Using a dataset gathered from the six largest OpenNap-b...

Measuring the welfare cost of climate change policies is a real challenge, as evidenced by the very large range of results obtained in the literature for comparable scenarios, such as for instance the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Even the sign is a topic for debate as the “double-dividend” theory aims at pointing that the cost may be negative, yielding a welfare gain in addition to the...

the process of price setting in market for goods &services; along with the phenomenon of price ceiling in production factors market with distort the equilibrium & result in price gap in the economy, which in turn generates excess demand & necessitate the permanent sources of finance (subsidy) for its satisfaction, failing which may lead to budget deficit & embarrass the maintenance of policy ex...

In this paper, we investigate the interactions between two digital content distribution channels: central server (CS) based and peer-to-peer (P2P) based. A central server based channel (such as iTunes) forms a network that displays negative externality, while P2P (such as Vuze) is a network with positive externality. When presented with the option of these two channels to obtain digital content...

We study which policy tool and at what level is chosen by majority voting in order to reduce negative externalities, such as pollution. We consider three instruments: a rule, that sets an upper limit to the activity which produces the negative externality, a quota that forces a proportional reduction of the activity, and a proportional tax on it. For all instruments the majority chooses levels ...