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Measuring preferences : from conjoint analysis to integrated conjoint experiments

Ramírez-Hurtado, José Manuel - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 28-43

When there are many attributes, experiments with Conjoint Analysis include problems of information overload that affect the validity of such experiments. The impact of these problems can be avoided or reduced by using Hierarchical Information Integration (HII). The present work aims to...

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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...

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La muestra de empresas en los modelos de predicción del fracaso: influencia en los resultados de clasificación

García-Gallego, Ana; Mures-Quintana, María-Jesús - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 131-150

This paper focuses on the development of both failure prediction models on a paired sample and a random sample of small … predictive power of the developed models is affected by the method used to derive the sample aim of each study. To estimate both … models, we consider a set of financial ratios as independent variables in each one, which is first reduced by the application …

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Rankings, accreditations, and international exchange students

Marconi, Gabriele - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

Do international university rankings or professional accreditations affect the preferences of exchange students over different institutions? This paper investigates the question by analysing the determinants of Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) students’ choices of...

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Default forecasting considering correlation between business and credit cycles

Kanno, Masayasu - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 5, pp. 275-305

Bank’s major approach in her internal rating system is credit scoring valuation which focused on corporates’ idiosyncratic risks and based on their financial indexes. Hence, an influence on corporates’ credit risks by business variation is not considered in her system. We model the effect...

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Spurious rejections by Dickey-Fuller tests in the presence of an endogenously determined break under the null

Badillo Amador, Rosa; Belaire Franch, Jorge; Reverte … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 3-16

Leybourne et al. (1998) have proved the possibility of a `converse Perron phenomenon' when conventional Dickey-Fuller tests are applied to deter-mine the order of integration of a time series. That is, if the true generating process is I(1) but with a break, frequent spurious rejections of the...

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El coste de los cuidados de larga duración en la población española : análisis comparativo entre los años 1999 y 2008

Alcañiz Zanón, Manuela; Alemany Leira, Ramón; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 111-131

This paper analyzes the cost of long-term care (LTC) associated to individuals in dependence situation. The economic cost of care per unit of service is linked to the expected time of needed care and the intensity of required services. We have estimated the expected lifetime cost of LTC in...

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Residual Grey Markov model for the developments of GDP, population and energy consumption in Iran

Mostafaei, Hamidreza; Kordnoori, Shaghayegh - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 93-105

Grey system theory can powerfully deal with incomplete and uncertain information. In this paper, we introduced an improved grey GM(1,1) model that integrates residual modification with Markov chain model. By this model, we improved the forecast accuracy of original grey forecast model and...

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Hedge ratios for short and leveraged ETFs

Schubert, Leo - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33

simulation was used. The results show for example that higher leverage factors achieve higher profits as well as losses. In the …-traded funds (ETFs) ; mean-variance ; target-shortfall probability ; Monte Carlo simulation …

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Posibles actuaciones económicas en la crisis actual a partir de las diferencias de opinión entre expertos

Lozano Gutiérrez, Maria Carmen; Fuentes Martín, Federico - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-20

In this paper is carry out an analysis of affinities in the perception on how to leave the crisis behind. For that we have considered the opinion of experts belonging to the politics, the economy, the company and the banking in order to gather those opinions and to look for likeness and...

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