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This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to...
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elicit and contrast patients’ authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them … to be. Conclusion: agents have a biased perception of principals’ preferences, and therefore a complete agency …: Informing the unaware medical care-givers about the patients' preferences, will improve treatment and patients' satisfaction. …
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Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the United States. We find evidence that - in...
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The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences do not change as a result of experience with the … commodity/service/event. Behavioural scientists have challenged this assumption, claiming that preferences constantly do change … as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for …
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Risk premia in the consumption capital asset pricing model depend on preferences and dividends. We develop a … decomposition which allows for the separate treatment of both components. We show that preferences alone determine the risk …-return trade-off measured by the Sharpe-ratio. In general, the risk-return trade-off implied by preferences depends on the …
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assumption of quadratic symmetric preferences, while being congruent with a risk management model. We show how the parameters of …
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from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally …
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institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …
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The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …
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This Paper presents intergenerational evidence in favour of the hypothesis that a significant factor explaining the increase in female labour force participation over time was the growing presence of men who grew up with a different family model – one in which their mother worked. We use...
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