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The generalized composite commodity theorem (Lewbel 1996) is used to test for consistent aggregation of U.S. and … aggregated into as few as five categories. The aggregation of all outputs into a single output cannot be supported in either …
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separability conditions for aggregation have been rejected is reconsidered to determine if aggregation can be based on the GCCT … of formulating aggregates prior to conducting tests for aggregation is addressed. …
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This article reports tests of aggregation over elementary ground beef products and estimates composite demand …
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When elementary prices move strictly proportionately, aggregation over a group of diverse products is valid, and group … commercial disappearance as a proxy for food demand can be misleading for policy analysis. Key words: commodity aggregation …
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Meat consumption and socio-demographic data from the 1990, 1993 and 1996 SUSENAS Household Food Expenditure and Consumption Surveys were employed to estimate the demand for meats in Indonesia. The focus was on the Provinces of DKI Jakarta and West Java where about one-fourth of the Indonesian...
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Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze the role of a potentially important unobserved attribute - CEO health - in corporate governance. We find CEOs are significantly healthier than the population and other highskill...
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For previously identified weakly separable blockings of goods and assets, we construct aggregates using four superlative index numbers, the Fisher, Sato-Vartia, Törnqvist and Walsh, two non-superlative indexes, the Laspeyres and Paasche and the atheoretical simple summation. We conduct several...
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For previously identified weakly separable blockings of goods and assets, we construct aggregates using four superlative index numbers, the Fisher, Sato-Vartia, Törnqvist and Walsh, two non-superlative indexes, the Laspeyres and Paasche and the atheoretical simple summation. We conduct several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133128
Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze the role of a potentially important unobserved attribute - CEO health - in corporate governance. We find CEOs are significantly healthier than the population and other highskill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181126