Revealed preferences of groundwater usage: decisions as strategic complements, not substitutes

This chapter turns to the restoration of consumer sovereignty. It revisits the three recurrent principles set out in Chapter 1 and argues that antitrust and intellectual property laws must understand consumers in their full socially embedded complexity to promote progress. Only in this way can analysts respect, rather than suppress, consumer preferences that evince concern for less proprietary forms of production and distribution in a marketplace which is heavily fixated on consumerism and passive consumption. It points to a number of ingenious recent studies from the cognitive psychological research that demonstrate that revealed preferences and external incentives have been offered as bright line rules for directing the consumer’s attention primarily (and exclusively) to conventional manufacturing and distribution techniques, but that such physical and economic processes scarcely exhaust the universe of choices about which consumers express strong interest.

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Compact development and preferences for social mixing in location choices: Results from revealed preferences in Santiago, Chile

Journal of Regional Science ◽

10.1111/jors.12563 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tomás Cox ◽

Ricardo Hurtubia

Keyword(s):

Revealed Preferences ◽

Location Choices ◽

Social Mixing ◽

Compact Development

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Post-COVID-19 travel behaviour patterns: impact on the willingness to pay of users of public transport and shared mobility services in Spain

European Transport Research Review ◽

10.1186/s12544-021-00476-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Samir Awad-Núñez ◽

Raky Julio ◽

Juan Gomez ◽

Borja Moya-Gómez ◽

Julián Sastre González

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Public Transport ◽

Nationwide Survey ◽

Travel Behaviour ◽

Revealed Preferences ◽

Trip Purpose ◽

Willingness To Adopt ◽

Shared Mobility ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

Willingness To Use

Abstract Background The COVID-19 crisis has meant a significant change in the lifestyle of millions of people worldwide. With a lockdown that lasted almost three months and an impulse to new normality, transport demand has suffered a considerable impact in the Spanish case. It is mandatory to explore the effect of the pandemic on changes in travel behaviour in post-COVID-19 times. Methodology A nationwide survey was carried out during the lockdown in Spring 2020 to overview the recent changes. The survey collected both stated preferences (socio-demographic characteristics and mobility-related attributes), and revealed preferences (individuals’ habits, especially in the frequency of the trips according to the trip purpose, and opinions regarding the willingness and acceptability of these changes, and which actors would have to drive them, and how) of individuals. This paper aims to study and understand the willingness to adopt a set of measures to improve the safety conditions of public transport and shared mobility services against possible contagion from COVID-19 and the willingness to pay for them. Results The results obtained show that some measures, such as the increase of supply and vehicle disinfection, result in a greater willingness to use public transport in post-COVID-19 times. Similarly, the provision of covers for handlebars and steering wheels also significantly increases individuals’ willingness to use sharing services. However, respondents expect that these measures and improvements would be implemented but maintaining the same pre-COVID-19 prices. The results of this research might help operators deploy strategies to adopt their services and retain users.

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