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Auction Bids and Shopping Choices
Lusk, Jayson L; Schroeder, Ted C. - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 1
made non-hypothetical discrete choices between five goods. Despite the fact that the choice task and auction mechanisms are … incentive compatible, we find that auction bids were significantly lower, as much as two times lower in many cases, than … valuations implied from choices. We also find that auction data imply own-price elasticities of demand for higher quality …
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Branding consumer goods: insights from theory and practice
Kohli, Chiranjeev - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 14 (1997) 3, pp. 206-219
Branding may be one of the most important decisions made by marketing managers. Since it is done somewhat sporadically, there are no strict guidelines provided by the companies to assist the managers in this task. Academic research also has not helped. While there is a tremendous amount of...
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Causality between Technical and Allocative Efficiencies: An Empirical Testing
Kalirajan, K.P.; Shand, R.T. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 19 (1992) 2
conceptualizing the relationship, but consensus has not yet been reached, and empirical tests are rare. Presents the empirical results … of applying Granger’s (1969) and Sims’ (1972) causality tests using time series data on technical and allocative … efficiencies of random samples of Indian farmers. These causality tests, with respect to technical and allocative effciences show …
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Trade liberalization effects on commodity imports in Cameroon
Emmanuel Tambi, N. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 25 (1998) 3, pp. 193-202
The hypotheses that an increase in relative price elasticities is not associated with increased import substitution and that an increase in income and foreign exchange elasticities is not associated with a greater degree of “openness” of the Cameroon economy are investigated using...
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Are long‐term bond yields excessively volatile?
Zhu, Zhen - In: Journal of Economic Studies 28 (2001) 6, pp. 433-446
UK are characterized by stationarity after the tests for unit root have accounted for structural breaks. Volatility tests …
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Software testing metrics: do they have merit?
Pavur, Robert; Jayakumar, Maliyakal; Clayton, Howard - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 99 (1999) 1, pp. 5-10
Project managers in information systems play a central role in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of software. Software metrics assist these managers in identifying opportunities for process improvement and help quantify software characteristics. Weaknesses in the traditional...
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Reliability Degradation in NMOS Devices Subjected to High Energy Gamma-Ray Irradiation
Barry, D.M.; Meniconi, M.; Al-Ghazi, M. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 10 (1993) 7
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A Note on Optimal Inspection Intervals
Vaurio, Jussi K. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 11 (1994) 6, pp. 65-68
Solving an optimal test or inspection interval is a relevant problem for a machine that is subject to random failures when failures can only be revealed by periodic inspection or testing. Frequent testing increases the testing costs, while infrequent testing leads to increasing downtime and loss...
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Symmetry of the Comparative Two‐sample Tests for Censored Reliability Data
Bohoris, G.A. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 11 (1994) 9, pp. 67-73
reliability and maintenance optimization applications. For this purpose, non‐parametric two‐sample tests for censored data are …
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Co‐ordinate measuring machines
Miguel, P.A.C.; King, T.G. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 12 (1995) 8, pp. 48-63
necessary to develop reliable and accurate performance tests for their verification to assure the quality of manufactured …
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