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Price Promotions and Brand Loyalty: Empirical Evidence for the German Breakfast Cereals Market

Empen, Janine; Loy, Jens-Peter; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2011

Price promotions are important marketing activities for (food) retailers; brand loyalty is a major requisite to foster brands' assets. Several theoretical papers have analyzed the relationship between price promotions and brand loyalty resulting in mixed or perhaps contradictory outcomes; only a...

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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.

Akers, Allen - 2010

Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...

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Too Much Ado about Instrumental Variable Approach: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?

Baser, Onur - 2009

instruments may produce inconsistent and inefficient results. Methods: We use two IVs and apply Shea's partial R -square method …, the Anderson canonical correlation, and Cragg–Donald tests to check for weak instruments. Hall–Peixe tests are applied to … see if any of these instruments are redundant in the analysis. Results: A total of 14,952 asthma patients from the …

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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...

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Cost-efficient Variable Selection Using Branching LARS

Yue, Li Hua - 2010

Variable selection is a difficult problem in statistical model building. Identification of cost efficient diagnostic factors is very important to health researchers, but most variable selection methods do not take into account the cost of collecting data for the predictors. The trade off between...

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Nonparametric Bayes Conditional Distribution Modeling With Variable Selection

Dunson, David - 2009

This article considers a methodology for flexibly characterizing the relationship between a response and multiple predictors. Goals are (1) to estimate the conditional response distribution addressing the distributional changes across the predictor space, and (2) to identify important predictors...

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Testing for Consistency in Tourists' Willingness to Pay for New Nature Reserves in the Gulf of Morbihan (France)

Voltaire, Louinord; Nassiri, Abdelhak; Bailly, Denis; … - 2011

In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness topay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics,when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP arebased on utility-maximising...

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Does Duality Theory Hold in Practice? A Monte Carlo Analysis for U.S. Agriculture

Rosas, Francisco; Lence, Sergio H. - 2011

The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...

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Do Fertilizer Subsidies Affect the Demand for Commercial Fertilizer? An Example from Malawi

Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009

function approach to deal with endogeneity of subsidized fertilizer in a commercial fertilizer demand equation. Our results …

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Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen; Svejnar, Jan - 2004

changes in ownership when analyzing spinoffs and generally to control for endogeneity, selection and data attrition when …

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