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Which Brands gain Share from which Brands? Inference from Store-Level Scanner Data

Oest, Rutger van; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Market share models for weekly store-level data are useful to understand competitive structures by delivering own and cross price elasticities. These models can however not be used to examine which brands lose share to which brands during a specific period of time. It is for this purpose that we...

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A Joint Framework for Category Purchase and Consumption Behavior

Oest, Rutger van; Paap, Richard; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

We propose a consistent utility-based framework to jointly explain a household's decisions on purchase incidence, brand choice and purchase quantity. The approach differs from other approaches, currently available in the literature, as it is able to take into account consumption dynamics. In the...

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A New Multivariate Product Growth Model

Boswijk, H.P.; Fok, D.; Franses, P.-H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

To examine cross-country diffusion of new products, marketing researchers have to rely on a multivariate product growth model. We put forward such a model, and show that it is a natural extension of the original Bass (1969) model. We contrast our model with currently in use multivariate models...

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A Geometry of Specialization

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas - Tinbergen Institute - 1998

Division of labor models have become a standard analytical tool, along with competitive general equilibrium models (Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models, specialization models lack a canonical...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically …

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An Environmental-Economic Assessment of Genetic Modification of Agricultural Crops

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Holley, Justin M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

countries. An overall evaluation requires that attention is given to the perception and endogeneity of uncertainty …

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Valuation of Travel Time and TravelIer Information

Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

The value of travel time plays an important role in cost benefit analysis of infrastructure

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Mapping the Minds of Retirement Planners

Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...

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Compensation of On-call and Fixed-term Employment: the Role of Uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty … originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I argue that workers who take over part of the quantity uncertainty … from the employer get higher payments. Quality uncertainty on the other hand originates from the fact that employers are ex …

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Policy Makers, Advisors, and Reputation

Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in the sense that their preferences are closely aligned to the policy maker's preferences, and some advisers are bad. Recently, some...

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