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Cultural heritage and the location choice of Dutch households in a residential sorting model
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2011
Local amenities are an important factor in the location choice of households. Heterogeneity in preferences of households tends to sort households over different locations which satisfy best their preferences given their constraints. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cultural heritage on...
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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Social Norms and Household Time Allocation
Fernández, Cristina; Sevilla Sanz, Almudena - 2008
Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female … household division of labor as an alternative explanation. We use the 2002 03 Spanish Time Use Survey (STUS) to explore the … presence of social norms associated to the household division of housework and childcare. First, we observe that wives that …
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Citation success over time: Theory or empirics?
Johnston, David W.; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - 2012
This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294341
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Citation Success Over Time: Theory or Empirics?
Johnston, David W.; Piatti, Marco; Torgler, Benno - 2012
This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168393
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Entropy, function and evolution : naturalizing Peircian semiosis
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2010
Cybersemiotics claims that the standard uses of the Shannon information concept as applied on systems with cognition and communication fail to account for the semantic dimension of semiosis. This argument does not properly recognize the role of entropy in semiosis. Entropy comes into full play...
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A methodology approach to delineate functional economic market areas : with an iterative three-step spatial clustering procedure
Oberst, Christian - 2012 - Latest update: 2012-02-23
This paper proposes an iterative three-step spatial clustering procedure to define Functional Economic Market Areas (FEMAs) with an evolutionary computational approach using flow data on economic linkages. FEMAs are needed as basic observation units in disaggregated economic data analysis, since...
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Flexpaneldid : A Stata Toolbox for Causal Analysis with Varying Treatment Time and Duration
Dettmann, Eva - 2020
The paper presents a modification of the matching and difference-in-differences approach of Heckman et al. (1998) for the staggered treatment adoption design and a Stata tool that implements the approach. This flexible conditional difference-in-differences approach is particularly useful for...
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What can economists learn from deleuze?
Belabes, Abderrazak - In: Economic thought 9 (2020) 2, pp. 55-67
Listening, seeing and reading Gilles Deleuze has had an influence on my thinking more than most of the economic writings I have consulted over the past quarter of a century. This discovery and furtherance of knowledge enriched my reflection and also allowed me to go beyond the general...
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Leibnitz integral rule and its application to the business firm's longevity problem
Gander, James P. - 2020
The paper takes the Leibnitz Integral Rule (LIR) under variable integration limits and demonstrates how it can be applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life span) of the investment is itself a variable determined...
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