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Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry
Connor, John M.; Reimer, Jeffrey J. - 2013
Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a source of profitability, and indeed, whether price even serves as a strategic variable in this...
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600904
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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269589
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Ageing and mobility in Germany: are women taking the fast lane?
Kalinowska, Dominika; Kunert, Uwe - 2009
Results from travel demand research in many countries show that - on average - women are less mobile and have different mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males and females. Moreover, in some countries results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271136
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …
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Demographic determinants of energy demand of households in Germany
Engel, Kerstin - 2010
This thesis investigates in demographic determinants of energy demand of households in Germany, with focus on space …
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Wege zur Reduzierung von Lebensmittelabfällen - Pathways to reduce food waste (REFOWAS): Maßnahmen, Bewertungsrahmen und Analysewerkzeuge sowie zukunftsfähige Ansätze für einen nac...
Schmidt, Thomas G.; Baumgardt, Sandra; Blumenthal, Antonia - 2019
detail (fruit and vegetables, baked goods, school meals) and a social empirical study (private households) was carried out …
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Retailers and Consumers : the pass-through of import price changes
Berner, Eike; Birg, Laura; Boddin, Dominik - 2016 - Überarbeitete Version: Juni 2016
-through rates for low-income households are 58%, significantly larger than those for high-income households. We then present one …
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Cross-border commuting and consuming : an empirical investigation
Mathä, Thomas; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2013
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Information frictions among firms and households
Link, Sebastian; Peichl, Andreas; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022
We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information … dispersed than households', consistent with higher information frictions among households. Second, the degree of dispersion and … the distance from expert forecasts varies more across groups of households than across groups of firms. Third, firms …
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