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This paper studies how trip chaining (combining commuting and shopping or commuting and child care) affects market competition: in particular, pricing and the equilibrium number of firms as well as welfare. We use a monopolistic competition framework, where firms sell differentiated products as...
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This paper examines the relationship bewteen cross-country differences in drug price regulation and the location of biopharmaceutical Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe. We use a theoretically-grounded location-choice model and data on 294 investments initiated in 27 European countries...
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unique data set on potential illegal migrants collected in Dakar, Senegal, we characterize the preferences and … our theoretical model, we evaluate a measure of the time and risk preferences through the individual discount rates and …
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preferences. Hence, the Robinson case naturally satisfies this property since nor Robinson neither Friday can disagree with …
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Measuring individual preferences of savers have two main motivations: to reduce the share of non-observed heterogeneity … choices. For France, we have constructed a unique data set, the PAT€R surveys (PATrimony and Preferences vis-à-vis Time and … postal questionnaires: PAT€R-2002 focused on the transmission of preferences between parents and children; the three …
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This paper aims at proving that social interactions can easily be rationalized by individual preferences as defined in … consistency, when individual rationality means that individual preferences are completely ordered and social consistency that … preferences are shown to fit the modeling of group loyalty when group loyalty is defined as the ability to freely accept a …
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addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment …? Previous literature shows that it is the case when society expects that on average future preferences will be more in favor of … quality in the utility function. We show that things are less simple when preferences are non-separable: the attitude of the …
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The main advances regarding the use of the Choquet and Sugeno integrals in multi-criteria decision aid over the last decade are reviewed. They concern mainly a bipolar extension of both the Choquet integral and the Sugeno integral, interesting particular submodels, new learning techniques, a...
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In most economics textbooks there is a gap between the non-existence of utility functions and the existence of continuous utility functions, although upper semi-continuity is sufficient for many purposes. Starting from a simple constructive approach for countable domains and combining this with...
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The main advances regarding the use of the Choquet and Sugeno integrals in multi-criteria decision aid over the last decade are reviewed. They concern mainly a bipolar extension of both the Choquet integral and the Sugeno integral, interesting particular submodels, new learning techniques, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603640