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Estimating the marginal cost of railway track renewals using corner solution models

Andersson, Mats; Smith, Andrew; Wikberg, Åsa; Wheat, Phill - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 6, pp. 954-964

Economic theory advocates marginal cost pricing for efficient utilisation of transport infrastructure. A growing body of literature has emerged on the issue of rail marginal infrastructure wear and tear costs, but the majority of the work is focused on costs for infrastructure maintenance....

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Environmental Valuation of Unlabeled Technology Adoption: Theory and Application to Tomato Production and Consumption

Gao, Jianfeng; Norton, George W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The adoption of new technologies by farmers may impact the environment, and hence affect consumer welfare. This channel of impact is seldom assessed in the literature, especially when the production technologies adopted are not labeled on the consumption goods, and as a result are not directly...

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Out-of-pocket expenditures of private households for dental services - Empirical evidence from Austria

Sanwald, Alice; Theurl, Engelbert - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014

patient out-of-pocket. Objectives: We analyze the socio-economic determinants of out-of-pocket expenditures for dentals … one-part GLM confirm the results of the two-part model. Conclusions: Our results allow new insights into the determinants … of OOPE for dental care. The household level turns out to be an adequate basis to study the determinants of OOPE …

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A two-part fractional regression model for the financial leverage decisions of micro, small, medium and large firms

Ramalho, Joaquim J.S.; Silva, Jacinto Vidigal da - Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Évora - 2006

silent about: (i) the determinants of financial leverage decisions are different for micro, small, medium and large firms …

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Do High Oil Prices Matter? – Evidence on the Mobility Behavior of German Households

Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

Focusing on travel survey data from Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of automobile travel, with the …

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Financial Effects of the International Migration in Europe: Modelling the Decision to Remit

Roman, Monica - In: Panoeconomicus 60 (2013) 4, pp. 541-555

This paper analyzes the behaviour of Central and Eastern European migrants regarding money remitting to their country of origin and is based on data provided by the National Immigrant Survey of Spain. In order to analyze the impacts of migrantsâ€™ demographic and economic characteristics on...

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Is peace a missing value or a zero? On selection models in political science

Vance, Colin; Ritter, Nolan - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 4, pp. 528-540

Sample selection models, variants of which are the Heckman and Heckit models, are increasingly used by political scientists to accommodate data in which censoring of the dependent variable raises concerns of sample selectivity bias. Beyond demonstrating several pitfalls in the calculation of...

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Pooling and Sharing Income within Households: A Satisfaction Approach

Elsas, Susanne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

becoming increasingly invalid. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, I analyze the incidence and determinants …

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Functional form issues in the regression analysis of financial leverage ratios

Ramalho, Joaquim; Silva, J. - In: Empirical Economics 44 (2013) 2, pp. 799-831

Linear models are typically used in the regression analysis of capital structure choices. However, given the proportional and the bounded nature of leverage ratios, models such as the tobit, the fractional regression model and its two-part variant are a better alternative. In this article, we...

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A two-part fractional regression model for the financial leverage decisions of micro, small, medium and large firms

Ramalho, Joaquim J.S.; Silva, Jacinto Vidigal da - In: Quantitative Finance 9 (2009) 5, pp. 621-636

silent about: (i) the determinants of financial leverage decisions are different for micro, small, medium and large firms …

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