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Effects of Experience, Knowledge and Signals on Willingness to Pay for a Public Good

LaRiviere, Jacob; Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Hanley, Nick; … - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2014

This paper compares how increases in experience versus increases in knowledge about a public good affect willingness to pay (WTP) for its provision. This is challenging because while consumers are often certain about their previous experiences with a good, they may be uncertain about the...

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Changing Eating Habits - A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Michèle, Belot; Jonathan, James; Patrick, Nolen - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013

We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test whether incentives to eat fruit and vegetables help children develop healthier habits. The intervention consists of rewarding children with stickers and little gifts for a period of four weeks for choosing a portion of fruit...

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Political Risk, Economic Integration, and the Foreign Direct Investment Decision

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008

In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. We also consider the …

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The Global Side of the Investment-Savings Puzzle

Byrne, Joseph P.; Fiess, Norbert; Fazio, Giorgio - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008

In this paper we re-examine the long standing and puzzling correlation between national savings and investment in … relationship in the idiosyncratic components of savings and investment. We also find that the global components in savings and …

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Booms, Recessions and Financial Turmoil: A Fresh Look at Investment Decisions under Cyclical Uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2009

The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …

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Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference?

Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra; Knight, John - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

linkages between investment in fixed and working capital and financing constraints. We find that those firms characterized by … high working capital display high sensitivities of investment in working capital to cash flow (WKS) and low sensitivities … of investment in fixed capital to cash flow (FKS). We then construct and analyze firm-level FKS and WKS measures and find …

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