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Trade and FDI flows in the international economy
Spies, Julia - 2009
context.In Chapter 2, a new version of a theory-based gravity equation is developed to properly account for the relative price … maximierende Entscheidung von Unternehmen darstellen. Die Schätzungen beruhen auf Mikrodaten für den Zeitraum 1996 bis 2005 und …
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Bootstrap Markov chain Monte Carlo and optimal solutions for the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected)
Kochanski, Greg P; Rosner, Burton S. - 2010
sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …
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Risk Preferences Beyond Expected Utility Theory: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
R?ger, Maximilian - 2011
preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …
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The effect of EU derogation strategies on the complying costs of the nitrate directive
Van der Straeten, Bart; Buysse, Jeroen; Nolte, Stephan; … - 2011
different scenarios are applied on a singlecase area (Flanders) and the economic effects have been simulated. Results show …
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Assessing the impact of the EU Common Agricultural Policy pillar II support using micro-economic data
Buysse, Jeroen; Verspecht, Ann; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido - 2011
The paper uses the case of Flemish investment support to make a quantitative analysis of pillarII support based on micro-economic data from the FADN and the administrative dataset of theinvestment support fund. A dynamic panel estimation quantifies the effect of support for settingupyoung...
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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland
Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2003
Swiss metropolitan areas are comprised of a system of communities with considerable fiscal autonomy. This study investigates how the income tax differentials across communities in an urban area affect the households` location decisions. Data from the urban agglomeration of Basel for the year...
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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
Bayer, Patrick; Timmins, Christopher - 2003
With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444180
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Price Uncertainty, Expectations Formation and Fishers' Location Choices
Dupont, Diane P. - 1993
This paper deals with the effects of uncertain output prices upon fishers' location choices. It employs ARIMA models to construct the price forecasts used by fishers in a model which generates expected profits for three fishing locations in the British Columbia salmon fishery. A random utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444662
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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations
Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2005
With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economicproblems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e.,simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475557
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The Value of Climate Amenities: A Disequilibrium Approach
Sinha, Paramita - 2008
Formulating efficient climate policies requires estimates of the impacts of climate change. An important category of impacts are climate amenities--the value people attach to temperature and precipitation. There is a large literature that attempts to value climate amenities using the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450613