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Ranking of Countries - The WEF, IMD, Fraser and Heritage Indices
Ochel, Wolfgang; Röhn, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 2, pp. 48-60
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Locally produced food in restaurants: Are the customers willing to pay a premium and why?
Alfnes, Frode; Sharma, Amit - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (2010) 3/4, pp. 238-258
Restaurant owners are always looking for new ways to increase profits. In this paper, we investigate the attitudes and perceptions of restaurant customers to locally produced food and their willingness to pay a premium. This study employs a field experiment conducted in a restaurant located on a...
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Demand, q, financial constraints and shareholder value revisited: an econometric micro-analysis of US fixed investment
Schoder, Christian - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 28-54
Firm-level fixed investment expenses are analysed using a large panel of US manufacturing firms from 1971 to 2007. Integrating the user cost of capital, q and accelerator theories of investment to one econometric specification, we estimate the impacts of sales growth, cash flow, the cost of...
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Comparison of nursing home care between the USA and China
Zhang, Ning Jackie; Wan, Thomas T.H.; Breen, Gerald-Mark; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 2/3, pp. 121-132
the USA and China regarding community needs, demand and supply and to identify managerial strategies that the USA and …The comparison of nursing home care between the USA and China has the capacity to facilitate both countries to envision …
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Opportunities for Western Food Products in China: The Case of Orange Juice Demand
Chen, Xuqi; Gao, Zhifeng; House, Lisa - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The rapid income per capita of Chinese consumers and increasing demand for nearly all agricultural products have …
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The demand for school meals: an analysis of stated choices by Swiss households
Filippini, Massimo; Masiero, Giuliano; Medici, Diego - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2012
In this paper we investigate households' demand for school meals using a stated preferences approach. Data are … 2007. A Poisson model with random effects is used to explore factors affecting the demand for meals at school. The results …
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Willingness-to-Pay and Demand Curves: A Comparison of Results Obtained Using Different Elicitation Formats
Whynes, David; Frew, Emma; Wolstenholme, Jane - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5 (2005) 4, pp. 369-386
demand curves, from which different inferences about demand elasticity, profitability and consumer surplus will be derived …
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Nonparametric Bayesian modelling of monotone preferences for discrete choice experiments
Geweke, John - In: Journal of Econometrics 171 (2012) 2, pp. 185-204
Discrete choice experiments are widely used to learn about the distribution of individual preferences for product attributes. Such experiments are often designed and conducted deliberately for the purpose of designing new products. There is a long-standing literature on nonparametric and...
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The improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania)
Milanesi, Julien; Mhina, Amos; Contamin, Bernard - HAL - 2006
demand - the stakeholders of the sector and to study their behaviours and their interactions. Using the output of this …
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The improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania). Demand Analysis and Sector Regulation
Mhina, Amos; Contamin, Bernard; Milanesi, Julien; … - HAL - 2003
' demand; the second one was about the sector regulation. …
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