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Exploring Heterogeneity in Consumers’ Meat Store Choices in an Emerging Market
Hu, Wuyang - In: Journal of Agribusiness 24 (2006) 2
Chinese consumers’ choices among meat stores are examined through a model that can capture consumer heterogeneities both in their opinion of various store attributes and in how much weight they attach to each attribute. This approach not only informs store managers as to what attributes...
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Dynamic modeling of fertility and labour market participation of married or cohabiting women
EDON, Cyriaque; KAMIONKA, Thierry - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
policies across countries. However, the unobserved components of heterogeneity also play a central role in the observed …
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Labour Supply Response of a Retirement Earnings Test Reform
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
results indicate both substantial labour supply responsiveness among elderly, and heterogeneity with respect to preferences …
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Corporate Tax Policy and Long-Run Capital Formation: The Role of Irreversibility and Fixed Costs
Miao, Jianjun - Department of Economics, Boston University
This paper presents an analytically tractable continuous-time general equilibrium model with investment irreversibility and fixed adjustment costs. In the model, there is a continuum of firms that are subject to idiosyncratic shocks to capital. Although the presence of investment frictions...
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Heterogeneity in the Determinants of Health? An Empirical Analysis of the Smoking-Health Relationship in Socioeconomic Context
Birch, Stephen; Jerrett, Michael; Eyles, John - Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis … - 1997
Systematic variations in health and illness among social groups have persisted and, in some cases increased, in many countries in spite of improvements in the availability of, and access to, health care services. Health policy makers have responded by showing increasing interest in non-clinical...
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On the impact of trade on industrial structures : The role of entry cost heterogeneity
OYAMA, Daisuke; SATO, Yasuhiro; TABUCHI, Takatoshi; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550173
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Time Preference and the Distributions of Wealth and Income
Suen, Richard M. H. - Department of Economics, University of California-Riverside - 2010
This paper presents a dynamic competitive equilibrium model with heterogeneous time pref- erences that can account for the observed patterns of wealth and income inequality in the United States. This model generalizes the standard neoclassical growth model by including (i) a demand for status by...
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Heterogeneous Contestants and Effort Provision in Tournaments - an Empirical Investigation with Professional Sports Data
Berger, Johannes; Nieken, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
a highly significant negative impact of the matchup's heterogeneity on joint teame efforts. However, further analysis …
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Sustainable Heterogeneity: Inequality, Growth, and Social Welfare in a Heterogeneous Population
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
heterogeneity. As is well known, heterogeneity in time preference results in substantial inequality. This paper shows that, even if … heterogeneous households are equally and indefinitely satisfied, and heterogeneity is sustainable on this path. The existence of a … by relying only on markets. Sustainable heterogeneity is politically fragile and requires rational―not unconditional …
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Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-Level Evidence for French Wine
Crozet, Matthieu; Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009
Firm-level regressions show that Champagne producers that receive better ratings from wine guides also export to more markets, charge higher prices, and sell more in each market. Our method corrects for a severe selection bias predicted by the model. By using direct measures of quality, we can...
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