Search Results - subject:"Discrete Choice Models"

SUNK COSTS HYSTERESIS IN SPANISH MANUFACTURING EXPORTS

Máñez, Juan A.; Llopis, Juan A. Sanchis; Rochina, … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

This paper tests the sunk costs explanation for hysteresis in exports using a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1990-2000. The data are drawn from the Spanish Encuesta sobre Estrategias Empresariales. To obtain consistent estimates for sunk costs, we control for all other...

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Differential merger effects: the case of the personal computer industry

Genakos, Christos D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines how information on the purchasing patterns of different customer segments can be used to more accurately evaluate the economic impact of mergers. Using a detailed dataset for the leading manufacturers in the US during the late nineties, I evaluate the welfare effects of the...

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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

binary and multinomial discrete choice models. The latter are considered because they allow for the examination of the …

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

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End-of-Pipe or Cleaner Production? An Empirical Comparison of Environmental Innovation Decisions Across OECD Countries

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe technologies for environmental and economic reasons. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that might...

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Discrete Choice Labor Supply: Conditional Logit vs. Random Coefficient Models

Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

nonexistent or does not lead to a significant bias in the derived labor supply elasticities, standard discrete choice models …

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Estimating Equilibrium Models of Sorting Across Locations

Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher D. - School of Management, Yale University - 2004

With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms...

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A Note on the Equilibrium Properties of Locational Sorting Models

Bayer, Patrick J.; Timmins, Christopher D. - School of Management, Yale University - 2004

A central feature of many models of location choice – whether of firms or households, within or across cities – is the role of local interactions or spillovers, whereby the payoffs from choosing a location depend in part on the number or attributes of other individuals or firms that choose...

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What Triggers Environmental Management and Innovation? – Empirical Evidence for Germany

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2004

It is frequently hypothesized that environmental management systems (EMSs) may improve a firm’s environmental performance. Whether or not this hypothesis is true is as important from the perspective of environmental policy as questions relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm’s...

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DIFFERENTIAL MERGER EFFECTS: The Case of the Personal Computer Industry

Genakos, Christos - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2004

, L63 Keywords: Computer industry, discrete choice models, merger analysis, product differentiation, random … Rysman (2004) argue that standard discrete choice models under-predict elasticities. They suggest that this is due to these … general method that allows the use of instrumental variables to a large class of discrete choice models. The second term in (1 …

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