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How Does Market Access Affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi
Zant, Wouter - 2014
improved market access on production per hectare and the underlying smallholder’s decisions on production and cultivated area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166038
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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing
de Graaff, Thomas; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324753
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Bayesian Combinations of Stock Price Predictions with an Application to the Amsterdam Exchange Index
Billio, Monica - 2012
We summarize the general combination approach by Billio et al. [2010]. In the combination model the weights follow logistic auto-regressive processes, change over time and their dynamics are possible driven by the past forecasting performances of the predictive densities. For illustrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114729
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Long-Run vs. Short-Run Perspectives on Consumer Scheduling : Evidence from a Revealed-Preference Experiment Among Peak-Hour Road Commuters
Peer, Stefanie - 2011
Theoretical and empirical studies of consumer scheduling behavior in commuting, and the associated valuation of time and schedule delays usually ignore that consumers have more exibility to adjust their schedule in the longer run than in the shorter run, implying that also these valuations may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117239
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118096
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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands : Productivity, Utility, and Sorting
Bakens, Jessie - 2012
and housing market. We find that an increase in the cultural diversity of the population positively impacts equilibrium … spatial sorting of individuals in both the labor and housing market. After controlling for home owner heterogeneity we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108782
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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants : The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2008
Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose … both models, for departure and returning, provides the probability that a specific migrant ends-up in The Netherlands. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723665
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Deregulating Sunday Shop Policies
Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2006
Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734760
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976846
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The Industrial Organisation of the Dance Industry in the Netherlands : A Transaction Cost Perspective on Hybrid Forms of Organisation
den Butter, Frank A. G. - 2014
The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order … the organization of exciting new events. A case study on how these EDM events are actually organised in the Netherlands … through the market and vertical forms through the hierarchy. As EDM events are characterised by much asset specificity, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050268