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This paper reports on the results from a split sample choice experiment, where the effect of changing the maximum level of the cost attribute is investigated. The hypothesis was that changing the maximum price level would either give rise to an income effect or have no effect on consumers'...
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This thesis analyzes certain aspects of the current account balance and its relationship to economic growth. Employing recently developed statistical and econometric techniques for estimation of non linear models, crises phenomena connected to the balance of payments are focused. The analysis of...
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Numerous reasearch attempts in predicting business failures and or bankruptcy are well documented in corporate finance. Attempts to develop bankruptcy prediction continues since commercial banks, public accounting firms, bond rating agencies, for example have advocated for such information to...
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There exists a huge agrifood potential in Ethiopia. However, the country's agrifood supply chains are underdeveloped to deliver quality supply to traders and supplement household livelihoods from the sector. The key factors that determine the proper functioning of supplier-trader chains were not...
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Can the yield spread, which has been found to predict with surprising accuracy the movement of key macroeconomic variables of developed countries, also predict such variables for an emerging country. This paper is an attempt to answer empirically this question for the Tunisian economy. It also...
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Can the yield spread, which has been found to predict with surprising accuracy the movement of key macroeconomic variables of developed countries, also predict such variables for an emerging country. This paper is an attempt to answer empirically this question for the Tunisian economy. It also...
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Spatial and social dependence shape human activity-travel pattern decisions and their antecedent choices. Although the transportation literature has long recognized the importance of considering spatial and social dependencies in modeling individuals’ choice behavior, there has been less...
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Non-market valuation techniques are vital instruments of policy. Providing quantitative welfare estimates validates public policy decisions. This research independently addresses three aspects of nonmarket valuation. Hedonic valuation of industrial accidents, limitations in recreational demand...
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I develop and structurally estimate an equilibrium model of the college market. Students, who are heterogeneous in both abilities and preferences, make college application decisions, subject to uncertainty and application costs. Colleges observe only noisy measures of student ability and set up...
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semiparametric binary choice and duration panel data models. The first chapter provides a framework for estimating large … several large-scale Monte Carlo experiments. The second chapter considers semiparametric panel data binary choice and … first to a fixed effects binary choice panel data model where we obtain a sharp characterization of the identified set and …
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