Purpose Guided by the collective action theory, signaling theory and social identity approach, this study examines backing behavior by individuals who have created projects under CC licenses. Two motivational mechanisms were examined: (1) identification via common interests in the CC space; (2)...

Der Beitrag schildert die Effekte von Antwortausfällen bei einzelnen Fragen ("item non-response") auf die Ergebnisse von multivariaten statistischen Analysen. Dabei wird das Verfahren der "Data Augmentation" angewendet, um die fehlenden Daten zu ersetzen (Schafer 1997). Anhand von Schätzungen...

This paper provides a structural empirical analysis of Dutch auctions of houseplants at the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. The data set is unique for Dutch auctions in the sense that it includes observations of all losing bids in an interval adjacent to the winning bid. The size of...

Abstract Informal care provided to the elderly by their children is proposed as a less expensive alternative to institutional long-term care. This paper explores how the elderly's consumption of medical care changes in response to changes in the informal care they receive from their children....

An important feature of agribusiness promotion programs is their lagged impact on consumption. Efficient investment in advertising requires reliable estimates of these lagged responses and it is desirable from both applied and theoretical standpoints to have a flexible method for estimating...

Zusammenfassung Gerade bei Umfragen mit sog. sensitiven Variablen, wie etwa dem Einkommen, ist bekannt, daß z. B. die Bezieher sehr hoher Einkommen eher zur Verweigerung der Beantwortung von Einkommensfragen neigen als andere. Einfaches Vernachlässigen der unvollständigen Datensätze für die...

In this paper we highlight a data augmentation approach to inference in the Bayesian logistic regression model. We demonstrate that the resulting conditional likelihood of the regression coefficients is multivariate normal, equivalent to a standard Bayesian linear regression, which allows for...