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Building Genuine Islamic Financial Institutions

Zaman, Asad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014

Since the spirit of Islam is in stark and violent conflict with the spirit of Capitalism, the form taken by institutions designed to express this spirit must also be different. Capitalist financial institutions are designed to support the process of accumulation of wealth, which is at the heart...

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Capturing Willingness to Pay and Its Determinants for Improved Solid Waste Management

Mustafa, Usman; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Haq, Miraj ul - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014

including Pakistan. Large masses living in this world particularly South Asian country (that is home to over one fifth of the … world’s population) is still striving for it. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exclusion to that state. The … questionnaire from both rural and urban regions of district Abbottabad, Pakistan at HHs premises. The objective was to discover the …

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The WTP for Facilities at the Amsterdam Zuidas

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rodenburg, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper reports the results of a stated preference study investigating the Willingness-to-pay (WTP) of employees at the Amsterdam Zuidas for the presence of non-shopping and shopping facilities. The Amsterdam Zuidas area, surrounding the current train-metro-tram station Amsterdam Zuid...

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'Home Biases', 19th Century Style

Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper discusses the existence of 'home' biases in the 19th century global capital market, whereby colonies appear to have received a 'disproportionate' amount of capital from their metropolis. Starting from a discussion of the Bulow Rogoff (1989) problem, we argue that imperial links...

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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products

Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...

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Crowding Externalities from Tourist Use of Urban Space

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter; Leeuwen, Eveline van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

local users. This paper addresses the issue of disutilities of space congestion through a dichotomous choice experiment …

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The Willingness to pay for Quality Aspects of Durables: Theory and Application to the Car Market

Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Conventional hedonic analysis measures willingness to pay for attributes on the basis of marginal fixed costs. We argue that in many cases variable costs are also affected by these attributes and that this should be taken into account. We develop a simple model to show that the marginal...

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Consumer Valuation of Driving Range: A Meta-Analysis

Dimitropoulos, Alexandros; Rietveld, Piet; Ommeren, Jos … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We perform a meta-analysis of studies investigating consumers' preferences for electric and other alternative fuel vehicles to provide insights into the way consumers trade off driving range for capital costs. We find that consumers are willing to pay, on average, between 47 and 64 USD for a...

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Sovereign debt, government myopia, and the financial sector

Acharya, Viral V; Rajan, Raghuram G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? In this paper, we develop a model where myopic governments seek electoral popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be...

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Modelling Pakistan's economy : forecasting and policy simulations

Naqvi, Syed Nawab Haider; Ahmed, Ather Maqsood - 1986 - Reprinted

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