With many real world decisions being made in conjunction with other decision makers, or single agent decisions having an influence on other members of the decision maker’s immediate entourage, there is strong interest in studying the relative weight assigned to different agents in such...

This paper sheds light on the distribution of profit and personal income tax elasticities of headquarters location across 13,074 firms in 68 countries over 1999–2012. Results suggest high variability in elasticities, which is overlooked in virtually all earlier work on the matter.

This paper considers R-optimal approximate designs for random coefficient regression models. An equivalence theorem for the R-optimality is provided for random coefficient regression models. Explicit expressions for R-optimal designs under linear regression models are presented for illustration.