In many regression applications, users are often faced with difficulties due to nonlinear relationships, heterogeneous subjects, or time series which are best represented by splines. In such applications, two or more regression functions are often necessary to best summarize the underlying...

Oligopoly market is characterized by the production of homogenous commodities with very similar attributes. The market can be segmented into groups of producers - oligopolists by means of cluster analysis. Regression analysis makes possible to derive cost functions for production of this...

In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). “Factors That Influence...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The purpose of this study was to compare the relative accuracy of different thermal-germination models in predicting germination-time under constant-temperature conditions. Of specific interest was the assessment of shape assumptions associated with the cardinal-temperature...

The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics that influence...

Periodic shortfalls of organic food have been commonplace in the USA. Shortages, created when demand grows faster than supply, have been exacerbated by relatively slow growth of certified organic farmland (in comparison to growth in retail sales) over the past decade. Organic intermediaries,...

Untersuchungsgegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Preisbindung auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt. Diese stellt eine absolute Ausnahmesituation dar, da sie für andere Wirtschaftszweige per se verboten ist. Das gilt umso mehr, als im Jahr 2002 das Preisbindungsgesetz eingeführt wurde und alle Verlage ihre...

Mit der Schaffung des europäischen Versicherungsbinnenmarkteswurde 1994 auch der deutsche Versicherungsmarkt liberalisiert.Damit stehen seither den Unternehmen auf diesen Märkten mit derProduktgestaltung, der Prämienkalkulation und derRisikoklassifikation neue Wettbewerbsinstrumente zur...