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Three Essays on Poverty Analysis
Chavez-Martin del Campo, Juan Carlos - 2005
very recent literature thatstudies public policy and its connection to behavioral economics. It incorporates the phenomenon …
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Time Inconsistency in the Credit Card Market
shui, haiyan - 2004
Does consumer behavior exhibit time inconsistency? This is an essential, yet difficult question to answer. This dissertation attempts to answer this question based on a large-scale randomized experiment in the credit card market. Specifically,we apply both time consistent preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450573
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Three Essays on Labor and Credit Markets.
Keys, Benjamin J. - 2009
incentives.The third paper, co-authored with Brian C. Cadena, uses insights from behavioral economics to offer an explanation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476971
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The impact of firm characteristics on management accounting practices: A UK-based empirical analysis
Abdel-Kader, MG; Luther, R - 2007
understanding of factors that explain management accounting sophistication. We examine the impact of a range of potentially … large scale questionnaire survey, indicate that differences in management accounting sophistication are significantly … sophistication were not, however, supported by the data.The improved understanding of the relationships between 10 contingency …
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Product strategies under durability, lock-in and assortment considerations
Gilbert, Stephen M. (contributor) - 2009
In this dissertation I focus on two considerations that influence the product strategy of a firm. The first is consumers’ choice and its influence on a firm’s product offering, and the second is the interaction between durable products and their contingent consumables. First, I study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429319
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THREE ESSAYS ON ADDRESSING NEW CHALLENGES FOR ENERGY POLICY
Shawhan, Daniel - 2008
The three papers in this dissertation all deal with new challenges for energy policy.The first paper deals with mitigation of market power in deregulated wholesaleelectricity markets, while the second and third papers deal with reduction ofgreenhouse gas emissions.The first paper experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466232
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Essays on Health Economics
Wang, Yang - 2009
in economics by hyperbolic discount factors and the corresponding time-inconsistent preferences. This chapter extends the …
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Experiential analysis of automotive consumption
Earl, Peter E. - 2011
This paper uses introspection and deconstruction as tools to improve understanding of how decisions to purchase cars are made and how a person's preferences evolve in the long run. It is based on a much longer, downloadable account of experience with 18 cars over a 30-year period that involves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448859
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Exact Measures of Income in Two Capital-Resource-Time Economies
Pezzey, John C.V - 2001
Exact optimal paths are calculated for two closed, continuous-time economies with explicit functional forms for utility from consumption, and for production from human-made capital and a non-renewable resource. Features of the first economy are non-linear utility, hyperbolic utility discounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451718
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Nudgitize me! A behavioral Finance Approach to minimize losses and maximize profits from Heuristics and Biases
Puaschunder, Julia - 2018
Behavioral Finance is one of the most novel developments in Behavioral Economics. Since the end of the 1970ies a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165524