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A cross-national comparison of consumers' attitudes toward direct marketing and purchase intention

Durvasula, Srinivas; Akhter, Syed H.; Bamossy, Gary J. - 1996

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Tracing the changing measures of unemployment in Dutch unemployment statistics 1900 - 1940

Rodenburg, Peter - 2001

In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317467

Development of a managerial learning measurement

Sluis- den Dikken, Lidewey E. C. van der - 1998

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000986283

Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait

Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...

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Derived measurement in macroeconomics : two approaches for measuring the NAIRU considered

Rodenburg, Peter - 2007

This paper investigates two different procedures for the measurement of the NAIRU; one based on structural modeling … while the other is a statisticai approach using Vector Auto Regression (VAR)-models. Both measurement procedures are … assessed by confronting them with the dominant theory of measurement, the Representation Theory of Measurement, which states …

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare...

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Measurement of horizontal inequity in health care utilisation using European panel data

Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Jones, Andrew M.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007

Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilisation is or is not …-sections. This paper exploits panel data methods to improve the measurement by including the time-invariant part of unobserved …

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The remarkable place of the UV-Curve in economic theory

Rodenburg, Peter - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the impact the UV-curve had on economic theory and to provide an account of the subsequent radical changes in its place and role over the decades since its first appearance in 1958. The paper traces the historical development of the UV-curve...

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Model-based estimation of high frequency jump diffusions with microstructure noise and stochastic volatility

Bos, Charles S. - 2008

When analysing the volatility related to high frequency financial data, mostly non-parametric approaches based on realised or bipower variation are applied. This article instead starts from a continuous time diffusion model and derives a parametric analog at high frequency for it, allowing...

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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?

Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007

What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...

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