The main purpose of this research is to prove if the price of the addictive substances and the consumer's income are determinants of the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and cocaine in Mexico. The contribution of this work is supported by the different way of consumption, addictive or...

This work evaluate both the position and trend of the com petitiveness of Mexican chicken meat carcass against the external supply, and the relationship between this commercial advantage, production and national export allowing to propose strategies that leverage the poultry production in the...

The literature that examines structural gender differences in behaviour and contributes to understand the lower rates of non-performing loans of women compared to men concerns different disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, law and economics. Although there are still critical gaps in this...

The addiction model shows that the decisions of individuals are rational and operate under dynamic patterns linked to time. Past beer consumption conditions present consumption and this, in turn, that of the future. This sequence has been called the social paradigm of choice. The empirical...

The utility function with traditional exponential discount cannot explain individuals´ problems of inter-temporal inconsistence and self-control. Several economists have explained these problems with what is known as “present-bias”. The present-bias means that a good becomes more tempting...

This paper aims to analyse the underlying factors of varied behaviour shown in the store set of purchase of households during a time period (temporal variation). In order to examine whether there are differences between households with and without shopping varied behaviour, a Bayesian Separate...