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The Compliance Process of Food Quality Standards on Primary Producer Level:A Case Study of the EUREPGAP Standard in the Moroccan Tomato Sector
Chemnitz, Christine - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2007
the international fruit and vegetable trade could be diminishing as a result of the increasing prevalence of food quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302570
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What Determines Real Exchange Rates? The Nordic Countries
Bergvall, Anders - 2002
long run movements in the real exchange rate for Denmark and Norway, while demand shocks account for most of the long run … variance in the real exchange rate for Finland and Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321757
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Testing Wagner's law at different stages of economic development: A historical analysis of five Western European countries
Kuckuck, Jan - 2012
economic development for five industrialized European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Italy. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289312
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Real and nominal wage adjustment in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2005
wage equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317904
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Employment effects of a payroll-tax cut: Evidence from a regional tax exemption experiment
Korkeamäki, Ossi; Uusitalo, Roope - 2006
three years in Northern Finland. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in the control region and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317931
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Risk and Rationality : Uncovering Heterogeneity in Probability Distortion
Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr-Duda, Helga; Epper, Thomas - 2009
It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207351
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Estimating Managers' Utility Maximizing Demand for Agency Goods
Hughes, Joseph P.; Moon, Choon-Geol - 2003
An empirical model of managers' demand for agency goods is derived and estimated using the Almost Ideal Demand System of Deaton and Muellbauer (AER 1980). As in Jensen and Meckling (JFE 1976), we derive managers' demand for agency goods by maximizing a managerial utility function where managers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274320
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Is There a Heat or Eat Trade-off in the UK?
Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2011
then test for a heat or eat trade off: do households cut back on food spending to finance the additional cost of keeping … shocks. Statistically significant reductions in food spending are observed in response to winter temperatures two or more … standard deviations colder than expected (which occur about one winter month in forty) and reductions in food expenditure are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500193
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: Analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices
van den Berg, Gerard J.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2023
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540893
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A random walk down Maple Lane? A critique of neoclassical consumption theory with reference to housing wealth
Hanssgen, Greg - 2006
The development of the permanent income/life cycle consumption hypothesis was a key blow to Keynesian and Kaleckian economics, and, according to George Akerlof, it set the agenda for modern neoclassical macroeconomics. This paper focuses on the relationship of housing wealth to neoclassical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266486