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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 Mixed Logit Recreation Demand Models With Large Choice Sets
Domanski, Adam - 2009
Discrete choice models are widely used in studies of recreation demand. They have proven valuable when modeling situations where decision makers face large choice sets and site substitution is important. However, when the choice set faced by the individual becomes very large (on the order of...
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Some child cost estimates for South Africa
Sienaert, Alexis - 2008
expenditure is converted into an individual-level welfare measure is likely to matter. This paper examines the monetary and time …
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Consumer’'s WTP for Environment-Friendly Production Methods and Collective Reputation for Place of Origin: The Case of Val di Gresta’'s Carrots
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Marangon, Francesco - 2006
This paper investigates preferences for various environment-friendly production system for carrots using discretechoice multi-attribute stated-preference data amongst buyers and explore the effect of collective reputations from growers of an Alpine valley known to be completely dedicated to...
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Fishing for more understanding: a mixed logit-error component model of freshwater angler site choice
Beville, Stephen; Kerr, Geoffrey N. - 2009
Recreational anglers are known to seek different types of experiences in different settings.Such preference and behavioural diversity has important management implications. Researchmethods which assume only a limited degree of preference heterogeneity and impose rigidsubstitution patterns can...
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Retail and Wholesale Market Power in Organic Foods
Richards, Timothy J.; Acharya, Ram N.; Molina, Ignacio - 2009
The demand for organic fresh fruits and vegetable continues to grow at a rate far higher than the rest of the produce industry. The cost of meeting organic certification standards, however, has meant that supply has been slow to adjust. With limited supply, we hypothesize that organic suppliers...
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Combining mixed logit models and random effects models to identify the determinants of willingness to pay for rural landscape improvements
Campbell, Danny - 2007
analytical approach outlined in this paper is shown to add considerably more validity and explanatory power to welfare estimates …
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Valuing Farmland Protection with Choice Experiments That Incorporate Preference Heterogeneity: Does Policy Guidance Depend On the Econometric Fine Print?
Johnston, Robert J.; Bergstrom, John C. - 2010
Although mixed logit models are common in stated preference applications, resulting welfare estimates can be sensitive … to minor changes in specification. This can be of critical relevance for policy and welfare analysis, particularly if … quantifies the sensitivity of welfare estimates to common variations in mixed logit specification and assesses practical …
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The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
Brown, Zachary Steven - 2011
control. In the 4th chapter, I further study these public goods aspects. To do so, I estimate a welfare-maximizing system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475393
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Numerical optimization for mixed logit models and an application
Dogan, Deniz - 2008
In this thesis an algorithm (MLOPT) for mixed logit models is proposed. Mixed logit models are flexible discrete choice models, but their estimation with large datasets involves the solution of a nonlinear optimization problem with a high dimensional integral in the objective function, which is...
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