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Madre, Jean-Loup; Axhausen, Kay; Brög, Werner - In: Transportation 34 (2007) 1, pp. 107-128

The share of immobile persons, i.e. persons not leaving their homes on a given reporting day, is both a central result and a prime quality indicator of a travel diary survey. The wide range of values for the share of immobiles reported in travel diary and time budget survey literature has...

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The puzzling persistence of the distance effect on bilateral trade

Disdier, Anne-Celia; Head, Keith - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2008

L’impact négatif de la distance sur le commerce bilatéral constitue l’un des résultats empiriques les plus robustes en économie internationale. Bien que connu, ce résultat n’a cependant fait l’objet d’aucune analyse systématique. Les auteurs examinent 1 467 effets distance...

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How Much Do Cartels Typically Overcharge?

Boyer, Marcel; Kotchoni, Rachidi - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2012

The estimation of cartel overcharges lie at the heart of antitrust policy on cartel proscution as it constitutes a … observations. Therefore, these data are subject to model error, estimation error and publication bias. A quick glance at the Connor … the whole sample. Clearly, our results have significant antitrust policy implications. L'estimation des surprix des …

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A pharmacoeconomic evaluation of zuclopenthixol compared with haloperidol and risperidone in the treatment of schizophrenia

Hansen, K.; François, C.; Toumi, M.; Lançon, C. - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 3 (2002) 3, pp. 173-179

Zuclopenthixol and haloperidol are antipsychotic medications displaying different galenic forms, while risperidone is available on the market only in tablet form. The depot form presents advantages; the duration of action allows 3–4 weeks between administrations. A meta-analysis showed that...

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Privatization, Foreign Acquisition, and Firm Performance: A New Empirical Methodology and its Application to Hungary

Szanyi, Miklós; Csizmadia, Péter; Illéssy, Miklós; … - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 7 (2010) 2, pp. 307-343

This study examines the effects of ownership transformation from the state to the private sector on firm performance in the post-privatization period using annual census-type data of Hungarian enterprises for the early 2000s. The empirical methodology designed to overcome the data limitations...

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Evaluating the Impact of Biofortification: A Meta-analysis of Community-level Studies on Quality Protein Maize (QPM)

Gunaratna, Nilupa S.; De Groote, Hugo; McCabe, G.P. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Biofortification, or the genetic improvement of the nutritional quality of food crops, is a promising strategy to combat undernutrition, particularly among the rural poor in developing countries. However, traditional methods of impact assessment do not apply to biofortified crops as little or no...

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Investment Appraisal of an Animal Feed Plant in South Africa

Jenkins, Glenn; KLEVCHUK, ANDREY - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2002

Limpopo Province of South Africa has been successful in recent years in attracting domestic and foreign investors. One of the priority sectors favored by the provincial development strategy is agriculture, and the proposed animal feed plant is a commercial project falling under the umbrella of...

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Is There a Role for Cost-Benefit Analysis Beyond the Nation-State?: Lessons from International Regulatory Co-Operation

Alemanno, Alberto - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

In recent decades, governments across the world actively cooperated to harmonize and coordinate policies “behind the …

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A multi-level cost benefit approach for regulatory decision support in food safety and quality assurance scenarios

Fritz, Melanie; Schiefer, Gerhard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

In complex policy decision situations where policy objectives can only be reached through appropriate activities of individual actors with own decision authority and individual objectives, the classical approaches for measuring the effects of regulatory initiatives through cost-benefit or...

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Instruments of policy analysis. the impact assessment development by public authorities in Romania. Case study

Matei, Ani; Dogaru, Tatiana-Camelia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The public authorities are facing real challenges due to the complexity and dynamics of economic and social issues. They must daily assess the available resources and answer to questions such as „is the citizens’ welfare good enough, can it be improved?” „there are the initiatives for...

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