This paper provides an international perspective to the question of parental satisfaction by analysing a rich, and relatively recent, set of data from the Programme for International Student Assessment's 2006 survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year olds (hereafter, PISA 2006). A new...

This paper extends the work of Goodman and Thibodeau which examines heteroscedasticity in hedonic house price models. It investigates whether heteroscedasticity is related to other factors as well as age, since correcting for only one factor when several are involved can worsen the estimates. A...

Many local authorities have responsibility for maintaining a part of the national heritage, which may be in danger of serious depreciation because of inadequacies in the funding process. The “major cities” in particular played a unique role in Britain’s industrial development which almost...

Purpose: An emerging theme in the practitioner literature suggests that the supply chain of the future – enabled especially by developments in ICT – will be autonomous and have predictive capabilities, bringing significant efficiency gains in an increasingly complex and uncertain...

Importance-performance analysis (IPA) is an analytic technique that generates a two-dimensional importance-performance grid, where the values of importance and performance across attributes are plotted against each other. This technique is used to assist service and other firms in prioritizing...