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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 … with each welfare programme we find that inwork cash and in-work in-kind transfers both have large positive labour supply … labour supply and suggest that there may be a place in policy portfolios for in-kind programmes despite their “inefficiency …

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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 and medium-sized firms with head offices located in the region of Castilla y León (Spain), in order to prove if the predictive power of the developed models is affected by the...

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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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The effect of socio-economic determinants on crime rates : an empirical research in the case of Greece with cointegration analysis

Nikolaos, Dritsakis; Alexandros, Gkanas - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 51-64

The present paper analyzes the relationship between the criminal offences, the function of the justice system and some of their socio-economic determinants in the case of Greece by estimating their dynamic interactions. The analysis covers the period 1971-2006 and the cointegration methodologies...

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Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile

Núñez, Javier; Miranda, Leslie - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 195-221

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of...

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What happens after enrollment? : an analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban M.; Spenner, Ken - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

At the private university we analyze, the gap between white and black grade point averages falls by half between the students’ freshmen and senior year. This outcome could suggest that affirmative action policies are playing a key role to reduce racial differences. However, this convergence...

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Users’ satisfaction towards facilities management, FM help desk in public higher educational institutions in Malaysia

Shafie, Fazira; Yusoff, Wan Zahari Wan; Pawi, Soeb - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 59-69

Higher educational institution (HEI) is a one of an organisation in a service industry field. It likes any other organisations are realising that the mission of the university is to provide a high quality environment that meets the requirements of users in an efficient and effectively. Basically...

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Student mobility in low quality schools : segmentation among the most vulnerable students

Román, Marcela; Perticará, Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 159-177

This study addresses the phenomenon of permanence for long years of low performance (urban) schools, measured by SIMCE. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student ?s mobility rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of...

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