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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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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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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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Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions

De Hoyos, R. E. - 2006

The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions …. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency … between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the multinomial participation equations is achieved via a two-step estimation …

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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones

Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010

Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...

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The effects of procedures on decision making : experimental evidence

Mertins, Vanessa - 2009

possible effects of (a) procedural fairness judgments, (b) procedural satisfaction, and (c) participation opportunities. Clear …

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Decision-Making and Ecosystem-Based Management: Applying the Vroom-Yetton Model to Public Participation Strategy

Daniels, Steven E.; Lawrence, Rick L.; Alig, Ralph J. - 1996

Previous literature has been critical of public participation practices, finding unimpressive application of public … participation principles and low levels of public satisfaction. Ecosystem-based management generally involves mixed land ownerships … participation and the difficulty of selecting appropriate public involvement mechanisms. To help solve the problem of choosing among …

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