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The Micro-foundations of Intertemporal Price Discrimination

Koh, Winston T.H. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper investigates the optimality of intertemporal price discrimination for a durable-good monopoly in a model where infinitely-lived households face an intertemporal budget constraint, and consume both durable goods and non-durable goods. We prove that the optimal price of the durable good...

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Household Demand, Network Externality Effects and Intertemporal Price Discrimination

Koh, Winston T.H. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper examines the optimality of intertemporal price discrimination when network externality effects are present in the consumption of a durable good. We conduct our study in two settings. In a model with two household types, utilities are dependent on the cumulative proportion of...

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Determinants of Job Turnover Intentions : Evidence from Singapore

Xing, Xiaolin; Yang, Zhenlin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper explores both observable and unobservable variables that would affect employed workers decisions on job change. We find that age, job satisfaction, satisfaction with working environment or job security, and firm size are among the major factors determining workers intentions of...

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The Value of Improved Public Services : An Application of the Choice Experiment Method to Estimate the Value of Improved Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure in India

Birol, Ekin; Das, Sukanya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

In this paper we employ a stated preference environmental valuation technique, namely the choice experiment method, to estimate local publics willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in the capacity and technology of a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Chandernagore municipality, located on the...

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Financial Liberalisation, Crises, and Economic Growth

Lee, Inkoo; Shin, Jonghyup - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

It has been widely recognized that financial liberalization plays an important role in economic development. Although an expanding body of literature has documented this effect across space and time, the channel through which financial liberalization affects the economic growth remains unclear....

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Estimating the Probability of Trade Union Membership in India - Impact of Communist Parties, Personal Attributes and Industrial Characteristics

Pal, Rupayan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

The paper analyses the impact of the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics on the individual decision to unionise for Indian non-agricultural regular workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and...

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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan

Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental … water and sanitation is a courteous expression for a form of deprivation that threatens life, destroys opportunity and … undermines human dignity. Thus, investing in the provision of safe water supply and adequate sanitation is not only a development …

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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Childrenââ‚¬â„¢s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia

Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Using a sufficiently long-spanning longitudinal dataset, we estimate the short and long term effects of maternal and paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether...

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A Rapid Appraisal of The PKPS-BBM Education Sector : School Operational Assistance (BOS)

Suharyo, Widjajanti I.; Sumarto, Sudarno; Hastuti; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

In March and October 2005, the Government of Indonesia reduced fuel subsidy and allocated part of the funds to the BOS (Bantuan Operasional Sekolah-School Operational Assistance) Program, which commenced in July 2005. This program is provided for schools at the primary and junior high school...

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Determinants of Urban Poverty : The Case of Medium Sized City in Pakistan

Awan, Masood Sarwar; Iqbal, Nasir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

Urban poverty, which is distinct from rural poverty due to demographic, economic and political aspects remain hitherto unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. We have examined the determinants of urban poverty in Sargodha, a medium-size city of Pakistan. The analysis is based on the survey of...

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