Nonparametric techniques are frequently applied in recreation demand studies when researchers are concerned that parametric utility specifications impart bias upon welfare estimates. A goal of this paper is to extend previous work on nonparametric bounds for welfare measures to allow for...

Global marketing managers are keenly interested in being able to predict the salesof their new products. Understanding how a product is adopted over time allowsthe managers to optimally allocate their resources. With the world becoming evermore global, there are strong and complex interactions...

This paper studies how a seller should design its price schedule when consumers' preferences are subject to temptation. As in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001),consumers exercise costly self-control to some degree and foresee their impulsivebehavior and self-control. Since consumers may pay a premium...

This dissertation picks the influence of proximity on the innovative behavior of firms out as a central theme. We concentrate on geographical and technological proximity and investigate their impact on learning through knowledge spillovers and the technological outcome in the form of product and...

The article concerns characteristic features of South Bohemia agricultural farms in higher position above the sea level in the district Český Krumlov (CK) and Prachatice (PT). As a basis for the analysis a collection of agricultural enterprises was used and the data we have received from the...

The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...