We consider hedonic coalition formation games in which each player has preferences over the other players and his preferences over coalition structures are based on the best player (B-/B-hedonic games) or the worst player (W /W-hedonic games) in his coalition. We show that for B-hedonic games, an individually stable partition is guaranteed to exist and can be computed efficiently. Similarly, th...

The purpose of this study is to investigate hedonic online shopping motivations. A qualitative analysis was conducted to explore the factors influencing online hedonic shopping motivations. The results of the study indicate that traditional hedonic values, consisting of social, role, self-gratification, learning trends, pleasure of bargaining, stimulation, diversion, status, and adventure, and ...

Subjects rated their liking for (Experiment 1) and their preferences between (Experiment 2) weakly hedonically positive test paintings. Some subjects first saw and rated some hedonically negative context paintings. Those subjects reported greater liking for (Experiment 1) and larger preferences between (Experiment 2) the test paintings than did subjects who saw and rated only the test paintings...

Hedonic methods are a prominent approach in the construction of house price indexes. This paper investigates in a comprehensive way whether or not there exists any kind of link between the type of price index to be computed (Dutot or Jevons) and the form of hedonic functions, hedonic methods and estimation methods, with a link being defined as a specific combination of price indexes, functions ...

Hedonic systems represent a multibillion-dollar industry and play an important role in how people recreate, socialize, and even conduct business. A key goal of hedonic system design is to promote positive affect—a variable known to influence cognitive beliefs, trust, disclosure, adoption, and purchase intentions. Yet, little research has identified or explained how stimuli from design feature...

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This work carries out a hedonic price analysis in the Italian grappa market. We use a dataset composed of around 15.576 observations of retail chain prices (related to transactions taken place in Italy in the period 1997-2004) and product characteristics. We estimate the implicit price of the main product attributes. Results show that particularly bottle format, high alcohol content and brand a...

We hypothesize that quality signals improve over time with the quality performance of a wine producer, and that spillovers will affect other producers within the same region. For this purpose, we estimate a hedonic pricing model for premium California wine. Data source is the annual publication "California Wine Winners" accumulated over the judging years 1990-2001. Quality indicators for 19,583...

Workers and firms in a bilateral matching market choose wages and human capital investments then match assortatively. This paper studies Bayesian equilibria of finite matching games and shows that as the matching market becomes large, Bayesian equilibria can be approximated by a truncated hedonic equilibrium in the continuous matching market. We use the truncated hedonic equilibrium concept to ...

Human judgements of the pleasure of sweetness have been reported to be modulated by caloric hunger, satiety, and sensory-specific satiety. This study examined both hedonic and aversive facial/somatic reactions to taste in the rat, in order to confirm the relation of hunger and satiety to taste affect, and to assess whether affective modulation depends upon the cognitive factors that mediate hum...