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Motta, Massimo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase -- rather than decrease -- total consumption when advertising … allowing firms to command higher prices). In this case, the main impact of a ban on advertising is to reduce equilibrium prices …--ante (i.e. without advertising) similar and advertising is of the `persuasive' type. The ban is the more likely to increase …

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The risk of divorce and household saving behavior

Luna, Libertad González; Özcan, Berkay - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...

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The rise and decline of children's labour participation levels during the early stages of industrialisation. Catalonia (1850-1925)

Camps, Enriqueta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This article aims to analyse the reasons for the intensive use of child labour in the 19th century and its subsequent decline in the first third of the 20th century in the context of an economy with a highly flexible labour supply like that of Catalonia. During the second half of the 19th...

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Costly search and design

Bar-Isaac, Heski; Caruana, Guillermo; Cuñat, Vicente - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

Firms compete by choosing both a price and a design from a family of designs that can be represented as demand rotations. Consumers engage in costly sequential search among firms. Each time a consumer pays a search cost he observes a new offering. An offering consists of a price quote and a new...

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A leverage theory of reputation building with co-branding: Complementarity in reputation building

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

We present a leverage theory of reputation building with co-branding. We show that under certain conditions, co-branding that links unknown firms in a new sector with established firms in a mature sector allows the unknown firms to signal a high product quality and establish their own...

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Hybrid consumption paths in the attribute space: A model and application with scanner data

Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Guevara, Antonio Ladrón de - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

This paper presents and estimates a dynamic choice model in the attribute space considering rational consumers. In light of the evidence of several state-dependence patterns, the standard attribute-based model is extended by considering a general utility function where pure inertia and pure...

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Satisfaction in choice as a function of the number of alternatives: When "goods satiate" but "bads escalate"

Reutskaja, Elena; Hogarth, Robin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

Whereas people are typically thought to be better off with more choices, studies show that they often prefer to choose from small as opposed to large sets of alternatives. We propose that satisfaction from choice is an inverted U-shaped function of the number of alternatives. This proposition is...

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Are Americans' musical preferences more omnivores today?

López-Sintas, Jordi; Torres, Anna; Zerva, Konstantina - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

Although we found a general trend favouring the omnivorousness thesis, as soon as we adjusted it to a set of structural factors and consumers’ tastes it was clear that this was caused by elitist inclusive omnivores who had increased the scope of their tastes. In general, younger cohorts were...

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Generalized canonical correlation analysis of matrices with different row and column orders

Velden, Michel Van de; Bijmolt, Tammo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

A Method is offered that makes it possible to apply generalized canonical correlations analysis (CANCOR) to two or more matrices of different row and column order. The new method optimizes the generalized canonical correlation analysis objective by considering only the observed values. This is...

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Perceptual mapping of practical ethics along the value chain: A multiple correspondence analysis with industry and cultural indices as supplementary variables

Guevara, Antonio Ladrón de; Torres, Anna; Tribó, Josep A. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

This paper presents findings from a study investigating a firm’s ethical practices along the value chain. In so doing we attempt to better understand potential relationships between a firm’s ethical stance with its customers and those of its suppliers within a supply chain and identify...

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