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Differentiation, self-selection and revenue management

Ng, Irene C. L. - 2006

This paper takes an interdisciplinary approach towards revenue management, incorporating economics and marketing concepts and proposing that firms employ a dynamic service differentiation so that consumer needs are met more closely. To locate market segments, the paper proposes that firms employ...

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Optimale Vertragsdifferenzierung in der Agrarumweltpolitik

Glebe, Thilo W. - 2006

This article deals with the optimal differentiation of agri-environmental contracts based on a self-selection mechanism. The paper demonstrates that both economic efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditures can be increased, if a menu of combinations of farming practices and payments are...

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The Impact of Cross-Border Flows on Markets for Labor, Higher Education, and Goods and Services.

Jackson, Osborne A. - 2010

The essays of this dissertation examine the determinants of cross-border flows, in the form of immigrants and foreign aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition of immigrant inflows into local markets is a significant determinant of...

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Essays on education, selection and wage dynamics

Kaymak, Bari? (1978; Bils, Mark

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2008.

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Borrower Self-Selection, Underwriting Costs, and Subprime Mortgage Credit Supply

Nichols, Joseph; Pennington-Cross, Anthony; Yezer, Anthony - 2005

In the U.S., households participate in two very different types of credit markets. Personal lending is characterized by continuous risk-based pricing in which lenders offer households a continuous distribution of borrowing possibilities based on estimates of their creditworthiness. This...

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...

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Testing for Consistency in Tourists' Willingness to Pay for New Nature Reserves in the Gulf of Morbihan (France)

Voltaire, Louinord; Nassiri, Abdelhak; Bailly, Denis; … - 2011

In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness topay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics,when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP arebased on utility-maximising...

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Does Duality Theory Hold in Practice? A Monte Carlo Analysis for U.S. Agriculture

Rosas, Francisco; Lence, Sergio H. - 2011

The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...

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Do Fertilizer Subsidies Affect the Demand for Commercial Fertilizer? An Example from Malawi

Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009

function approach to deal with endogeneity of subsidized fertilizer in a commercial fertilizer demand equation. Our results …

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Does Economic Endogeneity of Site Facilities in Recreation Demand Models Lead to Statistical Endogeneity?

Chen, Min - 2009

recreation sites. Although some kinds of endogeneity problems have been studied in previous literature, no study has addressed … recreation site improvements are more likely to occur at the more popular sites, then this economic endogeneity might cause … under what situations this economic endogeneity will lead to statistical endogeneity. …

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