Search Results - subject:"Choice Models"

The Endogeneity of Association Agreements and their Impact on Trade for Eastern Countries: Empirical Evidence for Romania

RAULT, Christophe; SOVA, Ana Maria; SOVA, Robert - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

Romania with European Union countries. Our econometric analysis based on qualitative choice models highlights in particular … analysis based on qualitative choice models highlights in particular why European countries chose to conclude an association …: Regionalization, European integration, Qualitative choice models, Probit JEL Classification: E61, F13, F15, C25 …

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The Causes of Excessive Deficits in the European Union

Castro, Vítor - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2007

excessive deficits and the ways of avoiding them. Binary choice models are estimated over a panel of 15 European Union countries …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827120

Cream-Skimming And Risk Adjustment in Colombian Health Insurance System:: The Public Insurer Case

Suárez, Ronald Eduardo Gómez - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2007

empirical approach based on binary choice models, the paper tries to solve two main questions. The first one is whether exists …

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ATTITUDES TOWARD TOURISM AND TOURISM CONGESTION

BESTARD, Angel BUJOSA; NADAL, Jaume ROSSELLÓ - In: Region et Developpement 25 (2007), pp. 193-207

Research into local community attitudes has been on the rise for the past two decades and various attempts have been made to identify the factors that influence residents' perceptions, opinions and attitudes toward tourism. Different surveys have brought to light an increasingly growing concern...

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Dissecting post-apartheid labour market developments: Decomposing a discrete choice model while dealing with unobservables

Wittenberg, Martin - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2007

The abolition of apartheid should have improved the employment prospects of black South Africans. The reality seems to have been different, with rising unemployment rates. Disentangling the real trends from changes in measurement and sampling design has proved to be difficult. We tackle this...

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Resource allocation under uncertainty: choice models and computational procedures

Gaspars, Helena - In: Operations Research and Decisions 1 (2007), pp. 5-27

The deterministic and stochastic versions of the resource allocation problem have already been discussed in the literature. The goal of this contribution is to formulate optimization models applicable to the problem of resource allocation under uncertainty, which signifies that profits resulting...

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Offsetting Behavior and the Benefits of Food Safety Policies

Nganje, William E.; Miljkovic, Dragan; Voica, Daniel; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2007

The net effect of food policies, viewed in terms of reduction of foodborne illness, death and food related diseases from obesity, may sometimes be much smaller than the predicted effect because of failure to account for offsetting behavior (OB). Theoretical and empirical models are developed and...

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Determinants of Environmental Innovation - New Evidence from German Panel Data Sources

Horbach, Jens - 2006

they contain questions that allow the identification of environmental innovations. We use discrete choice models for each …

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Evaluating alternative representations of the choice sets in models of labour supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Wennemo, Tom - 2006

During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature adopting this approach there are however two potentially important issues that are worthwhile...

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A combined approach for segment-specific analysis of market basket data

Boztuğ, Yasemin; Reutterer, Thomas - 2006

There are two main research traditions for analyzing market basket data that exist more or less independently from each other, namely exploratory and explanatory model types. Exploratory approaches are restricted to the task of discovering cross-category interrelationships and provide marketing...

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