Pricing Schemes and Seller Fraud: Evidence from New York City Taxi Rides

Different pricing schemes gives sellers different financial incentives to defraud consumers. Using rich microdata on New York City taxi rides, we examine the differences in traveled distance, duration and fare between trips taken by non‐local passengers and those by comparable local passengers. We find that, for trips subject to a two‐part tariff, the discrepancies are larger when the variable rate is higher, or when the expected post‐dropoff occupancy is lower; furthermore, the impact of the post‐dropoff occupancy is more pronounced when the variable rate is higher. In contrast, trips subject to a flat fare scheme do not exhibit these patterns.     

The Effects of Changes in Property Tax Rates and School Spending on Residential and Business Property Value Growth

In this article, we examine the effects of changes in property tax rates and school spending on residential and business property value growth in southeast Michigan. We use panel data for 152 communities in the five counties surrounding Detroit between the years 1983 and 2002, a period during which state government mandated major changes to school finance. Using the mandated changes to identify causality, we find that: (1) residential property values are more responsive to school spending changes than property tax rate changes; (2) business property values are more responsive to tax rate changes than school spending changes; and (3) business property values are more sensitive to changes in tax rates as compared to residential property. We also examine tax competition effects on property value growth, showing that tax competition plays an important role in property value growth in the southeast Michigan region.     

The Effects of Property Tax Protests on the Assessment Uniformity of Residential Properties

This study examines whether the appeals process improves assessment uniformity for residential properties. The sample includes all single?family residential properties in Harris County, Texas, for 2006–2008. I use a hedonic pricing model and Heckman's two?stage approach to explain the assessed values of all properties before and after the appeals adjustments. Full sample results suggest that the appeals process increased assessment uniformity and that the value adjustments were appropriate in amount. I also present results across properties of different values (low, medium, high). The first?stage probit model provides evidence on the factors that affect the likelihood that an owner will protest.     

纽约时装周:更多的新拯救者

于2005年2月4日到11日举办的纽约时装周圆满落幕,为我们展示了又一绚烂夺目异彩纷呈的时尚大餐.此次时装周不仅吸引了众多媒体的注意,还吸引了许多的明星前来观看.设计师争相展示自己的最新作品,为了创新发布会也是花样百出.甚至出现了专门为宠物犬举办的发布会.     

Taxation by Regulation and Regulation by Taxation: The Case of Local Cable TV Regulation

Until late 1986, municipalities played a major role in cable television regulation.Municipalities not only regulated pricing and quality decisions but also taxed cablesystems in the forms of in-kind and in-cash concessions. These activities appear tofit well with the concept of taxation-by-regulation, which concludes that consumerwelfare is reduced because of the rent seeking behavior of local politicians. At thesame time however, the notion of regulation-by-taxation is equally plausible. Thatis, politicians may use taxation as a means to regulate the activity of a monopoly bylimiting monopoly rents and improving consumer welfare. This article empiricallyseparates these two effects and investigates the implications for consumer welfare.     

Sources of Durable Competitive Advantage in New Products

In this article, Michael Lawless and Robert Fisher propose a conceptual framework for analyzing durable sources of competitive advantage for new products. They assess various components of new product introduction strategies in terms of their degrees of competitive "imitability" (i.e., the ease with which competitors can imitate). The less imitable the component, the more durable the profits it generates. The authors identify seven strategic components based on bodies of research in strategy and promotion, distribution and firm characteristics. By selectively managing these components, an innovating firm can affect a new product's imitability and the duration of returns. Using a "resource mobility" perspective, the authors develop propositions that should lead to a more systematic focus on long-term profits in new product introductions.     

伊芙心悦-来自纽约的私人衣橱顾问

时尚宣言:让女人成为艺术品 伊芙心悦认为只要心中有时尚,无论哪个季节,都可以变得靓丽光鲜.     

An Yang:The Birth of a New Famous Knitting Apparel City

On 29^th,December,2007,just 3 days before the New Year’s coming,the city of An Yang,Henan province was rewarded as the Knitting Apparel City by China National Textile and Apparel Council.Representatives from CNTAC and China Knitting Industry Association and representatives from An Yang     

知识产权计量属性的新选择

知识经济是智能经济、创新经济、全球化经济。在这样的经济形态下,知识产权更具有了时代所赋予它的一些特点。现代会计诞生以来历史成本计量属性在会计计量中就一直占据统治地位,其优点是显而易见的。但是随着知识经济时代的到来,历史成本计量属性的缺陷变得日益明显。由于历史成本计量属性存在诸多缺陷,因此可以考虑采取多种计量属性模式,对知识产权的计量属性进行重新选择。     

Catch Animal Spirits in Auction: Evidence from New Zealand Property Market

Following the animal spirits theory proposed by Akerlof and Shiller, this article contributes to behavior economics by investigating the possibility of using auction sales data to capture evidence of irrational exuberance in the housing market. Using the monthly percentages of residential property auction sales for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch regions in New Zealand from 2006 to 2015, and the exuberance testing method proposed by Phillips, Shi and Yu, we find that animal spirits have been developing in the Auckland housing market since 2013, but not in other regions. When compared to the results based on price‐to‐rent ratios, auction sales provide more meaningful results for identifying market‐wide irrational exuberance at an early stage. The causality test on price‐to‐rent ratios and auction sales volume shows that asset prices and animal spirits influence each other in the short run. In the long run, prices have significant effect on animal spirits, but not vice versa.