Adverse Network Effects, Moral Hazard, and the Case of Sport-Utility Vehicles
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Keywords
Network Externalities; Moral Hazard; Highway Safety; Discrete Choice Models;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D00 - Microeconomics - - General - - - General
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- K10 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - General (Constitutional Law)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2006-11-12 (Business Economics)
- NEP-DCM-2006-11-12 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-MIC-2006-11-12 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-NET-2006-11-12 (Network Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2006-11-12 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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