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Researchers are divided with regard to how consumers' experience multiplicity in their self-concepts. One group argues that consumers need a unifying meta-narrative (e.g. Ahuvia 2005), other theorists believe fragmentation is normal (e.g., Firat and Venkatesh 1995). While multiple selves is an...
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induced emotional states typically measured by opinion polls. This study investigated the relationship of personality …
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transformational or transactional leader behaviors. Furthermore, it is hypothesized that personality factors influence response …
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The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...
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assumptions regarding the structure of systematic risk and the nature of exposure or firm heterogeneity. We derive fat … further risk reduction is possible by changing the portfolio weights. In either case, neglecting parameter heterogeneity can … heterogeneity can lead to overestimation of risk, whether measured by unexpected loss or value-at-risk. …
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We present an hierarchical Bayes approach to modeling parameter heterogeneity in generalized linear models. The model … have a multivariate normal distribution. However, class membership is not known a priori, so the heterogeneity in the … synthetic data with known heterogeneity and number of sub-populations. An application is presented concerning preferences for …
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. The first essay develops an understanding of how, in addition to search frictions, labor heterogeneity can influence … aggregate labor-market fluctuations, and, in particular, the cyclical behavior of aggregate unemployment. Heterogeneity is …
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This dissertation contains four essays about evolutionary learning dynamics and the quantal response model of bounded rationality in game theory.The first essay examines the use of single-agent and representative-agent models to describe the aggregate behavior of heterogeneous quantal...
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We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy...
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Heterogeneity, i.e., the notion that individuals respond differently to economic stimuli, can have profound … grouping techniques that can be used to account for heterogeneity in financial behavior. Two are well established: company … participants behave in a similar manner may consider using of mixture model in the presence of heterogeneity in financial behavior. …
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