This paper investigates the use of Design of Experiments in observational studies in order to select informative observations and features for classification. D-optimal plans are searched for in existing data and based on these plans the variables most relevant for classification are determined....

Rossiter (Marketing Lett 23: 905–916, <CitationRef CitationID="CR28">2012</CitationRef>) provides a critique of the brand love measure from Batra et al. (J Marketing 76: 1–16, <CitationRef CitationID="CR9">2012</CitationRef>) and offers a new measure of brand love to be used in its stead. In this reply, we argue that our measure is more consistent with the best available...</citationref></citationref>

In some key respects the income versus consumption tax choice is simply misunderstood by many people, including sophisticated practitioners.

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This paper shows the existence of an equilibrium pragmatic Language with a universal grammar as a coordination device under communication misunderstandings. Such a language plays a key role in achieving efficient outcomes in those Sender-Receiver games where there may exist noisy information...