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Women’s representation in politics : voter bias, party bias, and electoral systems
González Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos
Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...
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Explaining Variation in Farm and Farm Business Performance in Respect to Farmer Segmentation Analysis
Wilson, Paul; Harper, Nicholas; Darling, Richard - 2011
Results from a pilot application of Defra’s segmentation model applied to the Farm Business Survey for England are presented. Interviews with 750 FBS co-operators during 2010, using a discursive approach, classified co-operators into one of five segmentation groups: Custodians (14.0%);...
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Retail shopping behaviour: a comparison of Australian and Canadian shopping time
Yacyshyn, Alison; Vitartas, Peter - 2010
process provides marketers with an understanding of consumer behaviour decisions. The allocation of time to shopping is also … also been shown to affect shopping behaviour. This paper investigates the differences in retail shopping time between the … two countries with a focus on the impact of travel time and time pressure on shopping behaviour. Demographic and personal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475306
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BNAS: Towards a Business Nework ABM System
Young, Louise - 2011
nature and impact of different factors on structure, behaviour and performance that are beyond traditional closed …
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Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Pricing of IPOs
Dolvin, Steven D.; Pyles, Mark K. - 2007
Purpose - It has been found that stock market returns vary seasonally with the amount of daylight, and they attribute this effect to seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which is a psychological condition that causes depression and heightened risk aversion during the fall and winter months. The...
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Essays on the information acquisition of doubt-prone decision makers
Alaoui, Larbi - 2010
There are many situations in which individuals have a choice of whether or not to observe the eventual outcome. In these instances, individuals often prefer to avoid observing the outcome. The standard von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) Expected Utility model cannot accommodate these cases, since it...
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Other-regarding preferences and consequentialism
Borah, Abhinash - 2010
parameter richer than that model. We use our decision model to provide an expressive theory of voting. …
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Entrepreneurial activity in markets with imperfections
Silveira, Rafael - 2007
This dissertation consists of three essays concerning entrepreneurship, venture capital and monetary economics. It takes time for a venture capitalist to find a project in which to invest, to implement projects and to cash out. Further, capitalists and entrepreneurs are uncertain about whom they...
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Essays on corporate finance and financial institutions
Yan, Jinghua - 2007
The dissertation consists of four chapters. The first chapter presents a model that incorporates product market competition into the standard neoclassical framework. The model explains why value-maximizing firms conduct mergers that appear to lower shareholder value. In a Cournot setting, the...
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Essays on careers in firms
Pastorino, Elena - 2005
This dissertation considers the determinants of individual careers within firms and it is articulated into two chapters. The first chapter analyzes a learning model in which a firm and a worker can acquire information about the worker's ability by observing his performance at different tasks....
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