The aim of the paper is to estimate models for household classifi cation from the point of view of their financial situation. The models are constructed on the basis of data from the Living Conditions 2010 survey. The target indicators are the possibility of a household to afford a week-long...

Municipal boundary reform (municipal amalgamation) has been done in many countries in recent years as the result of a push to enlarge the size and coverage of local government units, which in turn is driven mainly by the prospect of economies of scale. However, in a notable body of previous...

We propose a nonparametric test that distinguishes 'depressions' and 'booms' from ordinary recessions and expansions. Depressions and booms are defined as coming from another underlying process than recessions and expansions. We find four depressions and booms in the NBER business cycle between...

The marketing literature often argues that the random coefficient logit model gives more realistic results than the homogeneous logit. The purpose of this paper is to show that the random coefficients logit improves upon, but does not completely solve the problems of the homogeneous logit. We...

How important to well-being is choosing a career with the right fit? This question is difficult to answer because we observe individuals only in their chosen careers, not in the other (presumably inferior) options they did not choose. To overcome this problem, we use expected utility to...

This paper analyzes the nature of the farmers’ market in Romania and its position regarding the main rivals: the specialized stores and the supermarkets. We use a multinomial logit model to estimate the consumers’ characteristics which determine their preference for a certain...

El presente documento busca analizar el comportamiento de los hogares colombianos en la compra de vehículo nuevo para uso particular, y modelar el funcionamiento de la demanda de vehículos particulares en Colombia, entre 2009 y 2011. Esto a partir de la estimación de un modelo logit anidado...

The mixed logit choice model has become the common standard to analyze transport behavior. Efficient design of the corresponding choice experiments is therefore indispensable to obtain precise knowledge of travelers' preferences. Accounting for the individual specific coefficients in the model,...

We propose a near-rational model of retail price adjustment consistent with microeconomic and macroeconomic evidence on price dynamics. Our framework is based on the idea that avoiding errors in decision making is costly. Given our assumed cost function for error avoidance, the timing of firms'...

This paper describe lclogit, a Stata module to fit latent class logit models through the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. The stability of this estimation method allows overcoming some of the computational difficulties that normally arise when fitting such models with many latent classes....