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Tools for Consumer Rights Protection in the Prediction of Electronic Virtual Market and Technological Changes

Gangur, Mikuláš; Plevný, Miroslav - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 16 (2014) 36, pp. 578-578

Electronic virtual markets can serve as an alternative tool for collecting information that is spread among numerous experts. This is the principal market functionality from the operators’ point of view. On the other hand it is profits that are the main interest of the market participants....

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ANALYZING FIRM PERFORMANCE HETEROGENEITY: THE RELATIVE EFFECT OF BUSINESS DEFINITION

HOUTHOOFD, N.; DESMIDT, S.; FIDALGO, G. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2009

firm performance within a specific industry, and (b) demonstrates the value of this method by measuring the effect of … business definition on performance within the context of a specific SME-dominated industry, namely the Belgian electrical whole … within the examined industry. Consequently, managers should carefully monitor and examine the business domain they are in as …

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To Weight or not to Weight? The Eternal Question of Econometricians facing Survey Data

Davezies, Laurent; D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2009

A recurrent problem in economic studies based on survey data is to determine whether survey weights should be used or not. We show that weighted estimators are more robust than unweighted ones, but less accurate when unweighted estimators are consistent. In some circumstances, a compatibility...

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MISSING-VALUES ADJUSTMENT FOR MIXED-TYPE DATA

Tarsitano, Agostino; Falcone, Marianna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2010

In this paper we propose a new method of single imputation, reconstruction, and estimation of non-reported, incorrect or excluded values both in the target and in the auxiliary variables where the first is on ratio or interval scale and the last are heterogeneous in measurement scale. Our...

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A sensitivity analysis of poverty definitions

Longford, Nicholas Tibor; Nicodemo, Catia - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009

We conduct a sensitivity analysis of several estimators related to household income, to explore how some details of the definitions of the variables concerned influence the values of the common estimates, such as the mean, median and (poverty) rates. The purpose of this study is to highlight...

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Policy-related small.area estimation

Tibor, LONGFORD Nicholas - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011

A method of small-area estimation with a utility function is developed. The utility characterises a policy planned to be implemented in each area, based on the area’s estimate of a key quantity. It is shown that the commonly applied empirical Bayes and composite estimators are inefficient for...

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THE MEASUREMENT OF SERVICE QUALITY IN MUNICIPALITIES BY SERVQUAL ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY IN ESKIÅžEHIR MUNICIPALITIES

Filiz, Zeynep; Yilmaz, Veysel; Ceren YagÄ±zer - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 10 (2010) 3, pp. 59-76

Because of its main characteristics like intangibility, inseparability, heterogenetiy and perishabilty, it is quite hard to understand describe and measure the service quality of municipalities. However, a number of methods for measuring service quality in the application have been developed in...

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Stochastic methods of data analysis of marketing and social surveys

Cherepanov, Evgeny - In: Applied Econometrics 22 (2011) 2, pp. 48-61

In the marketing surveys and applied sociology quantitative estimates are typically based on asymptotic characteristics of sample frequencies. To overcome the problem of heterogeneity of population «quota sampling» method that reflects the main categories of the population structure is...

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Evaluations on list undercoverage bias and possible solutions: the case of ISTAT CATI survey "Trips, holidays and daily life"

Vitiis, Claudia De; Righi, Paolo - In: Rivista di statistica ufficiale 13 (2011) 2-3, pp. 5-19

The list of fixed line telephone numbers, used as sampling frame for CATI surveys on households, suffers of an increasing undercoverage rate. Some methodological studies conducted on ISTAT CATI household surveys have pointed out the risk of biased estimates for particular phenomena of interest...

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Psychological and Socio – Economic Causes of Criminal Behaviour in Pakistan : A Case Study of District Bahawalnagar

Aslam, Kiran - 2016

Crime is a social evil for Global world in all facets. Crime is always considered as a social malevolent that is strictly related to individuals' economic, psychological and social background .The first empirical study investigated by Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) on the relationship between...

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