We study the demand by organic farmers for technical advice using a quantile regression for the demand of organic farmers for consultations with private information providers. There is substantial heterogeneity in the impact of critical explanatory variables on consultations of organic farmer....

This paper reports the use of loyalty card data from one of the biggest retailers in the world – Tesco - to analyse the impact of promotions. The aim is to demonstrate how such data can bring significant benefits to retailers and manufacturers when deciding promotional strategies, over and...

The authors´ goal was to create a model suitable for measuring organization capital, that is to say a model with high coefficient of determination, in which coefficients of all regressors and the intercept are statistical significant. Three linear regression models for the years 2006, 2007 and...

We revisit how the government debt ratio and real GDP growth relationship varies with indebted levels and two macroeconomic control variables, unemployment rate and inflation rate, in a balanced panel of 19 OECD countries over the period 1993-2007, after the signing of the EU Treaty in...

We deal with two kinds of Cox regression models with varying coefficients. The coefficients vary with time in one model. In the other model, there is an important random variable called an index variable and the coefficients vary with the variable. In both models, we have p-dimensional...

Recent research highlights that countries differ with respect to their experience with capital flows and do not systematically gain from capital account liberalization. This paper is related to the empirical literature that investigates the particular conditions under which international...

As a multi-dimensional indicator that captures the quality of life and wellbeing, the level of life satisfaction is very important for designing future policy The present analysis will focus on the study of life satisfaction based on the Romanian respondents’ opinions and feelings about family...