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multiattribute valuation methods. Researchers have proposed using best-worst scaling (BWS) methods which seek to extract information …
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scales, from which we determined spatially-dependent (i.e., site specific) scaling factors for the mean and variance of crop …
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is based on the assumption that national context matters. We argue that the chances for scaling local experiments between … the strengths and weaknesses of their climate policies. Second, we assess the scaling potential of local experiments, in … analyze actual scaling between the two German cities, which share the same national context. More generally, we explore how …
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Global advances in digital technology are facilitating corresponding rises in digital entrepreneurship and its startup manifestation. There are many uncertainties on the road to digital startup evolution, some of which may be successfully navigated with the assistance of business incubators....
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Test beds and living labs have emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation across geographical regions and technical domains. They feed on the popular “grand societal challenges” discourse and the growing insight that adequate policy responses to these challenges will require...
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We examine the relationship between child quantity and quality. Motivated by the theoretical ambiguity regarding the sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children's outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted relationship between family size and child outcomes. We...
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This paper proposes an approach to measure the extent of nonlinearity of the exposure of a financial asset to a given … components. We illustrate the method with the measurement of the degree of nonlinearity of a European style option with respect … SP500. The results are strongly supportive of a nonlinear relationship between expected return and expected volatility …
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This article seeks to check the nonlinearity of the Phillips curve in Tunisia for the 1993-2012 period, relying on a …
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In a world full of studies dealing with the relationship of price-to-earnings ratio and the dividend payout ratio, rarely noticeable are those examining the possibility that this relationship may be non-linear. Although rare, studies that aim to fill this gap focus solely on the US capital...
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This study explores the empirical validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis between Turkey and its four major trading partners, the European Union, Russia, China and the US. Accounting for the nonlinear nature of real exchange rates, we employ a battery of recently developed...
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