Diese Arbeit umfasst eine Darstellung des Grossman-Modells und der Akkumulation von Gesundheitskapital. Es werden ältere empirische Untersuchungen (Wagstaff) vorgestellt und aus methodischer Sicht kritisiert, verbesserte ökonometrische Methoden vorgeschlagen und deren Anwendung in aktuellen...

The Marketing literature has shown how difficult it is to profile market segments derived with finite mixture models, especially using traditional descriptor variables (e.g., demographics). Such profiling is critical for the proper implementation of segmentation strategy. We propose a new finite...

Falls and their injury outcomes have count distributions that are highly skewed toward the right with clumping at zero, posing analytical challenges. Different modelling approaches have been used in the published literature to describe falls count distributions, often without consideration of...

Este trabajo propone un nuevo procedimiento para estimar el fechado de los cambios de fase (picos y valles) en un ciclo económico de referencia, a partir del fechado de los cambios de fase en los ciclos económicos específicos de un conjunto amplio de indicadores económicos coincidentes. Cada...

Este trabajo proporciona una cronología precisa del ciclo económico de referencia de la economía española. Para ello, se adapta el procedimiento de fechado, que considera la posibilidad de múltiples puntos de cambio en la fase del ciclo, propuesto por Camacho, Gadea y Gómez Loscos (2021)....

The primary purpose of the research was to ascertain the generalisability of the 1974 Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) to South African audit employees, regarding perceptions of socially desirable characteristics for males and females.The secondary purpose of this research was to demonstrate the...

Online customer behaviors include a wide range of processes and activities related to sensory reactions, perceptions, attitude formation, preferences, decisions, satisfaction evaluation, and loyalty formation. Online customer behaviors are influenced by exogenous and endogenous factors....

Entrepreneurship is a powerful driver of economic growth. It creates new companies and jobs, nurtures new skills and creates opportunities. The term "entrepreneurship" became increasingly used because it is associated with economic development in a country or a region. Currently, entrepreneurs...