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MEASURING WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY IN DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH SEMI- PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES

Garcia, Pablo M - EconWPA - 2005

It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models –or their expanded versions-. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above mentioned issue and to propose an alternative...

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Borderplex Bridge and Air Econometric Forecast Accuracy

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton - EconWPA - 2005

transportation equations. One sub-system models northbound surface traffic across the international bridges from Ciudad Juarez. The … of borderplex transportation variable forecast accuracy relative to a random walk benchmark is completed. Empirical …

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Survival in a Declining Industry: The Case of Baseball Cards

Zillante, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

The baseball card industry provides a case study of survival in a declining industry. The case study shows how manufacturers have varied their strategic behavior in response to changes that have occurred within the industry in the last 20 years. This is in stark contrast to most of the existing...

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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais

Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005

The motion passed in 2002 in the parliament of the Swiss canton of Valais by the MP Yves Bagnoud requires that the government has the overall debt of the State externally audited. The aim of this study is to provide information to answer the motion. To do so, the study is organised as follows....

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open-source software

Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004

This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world’s scientific literature in physics and mathematics. This...

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Long–term Business Relationships between Consignor and Trucking Carrier in Japan

KASUGA, Norihiro; Torii, Akio - EconWPA - 2005

volatility of demand tend to rely on transportation services procured from spot logistics markets with a shorter contract term …In this paper, we have empirically analyzed the factors that lead to longer business relationships in the logistics … consignors and the trucking carriers that receive consignment of the transportation of the consignor’s main products have …

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The Promises and Perils of Agent-Based Computational Economics

Richiardi, Matteo - EconWPA - 2004

critiques against the use of simulation, which point to the following problematic areas: (i) interpretation of the simulation … dynamics, (ii) estimation of the simulation model, and (iii) generalisation of the results. I show that there exist solutions …

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

This paper aims to study, by means of a laboratory experiment and a simulation model, some of the mechanisms which …

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A Toolkit for Optimizing Functions in Economics

Goffe, William L. - EconWPA - 1997

Optimization algorithms must be among the most common numerical methods used by economists. Yet, there is surprisingly little guidance on choosing the appropriate one. This problem is most notable with regard to conventional versus global optimizers. Typically, a global optimizer is used when a...

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