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Solving and Testing for Regressor-Error (in)Dependence When no Instrumental Variables are Available: With New Evidence for the Effect of Education on Income
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new approach, the latent instrumental variables (LIV) method, to estimate regression coefficients consistently in a simple linear regression model where ...
Market Systems Modeling for Public Versus Private Tradeoff Analysis in Optimal Vehicle Design.
(2009)
The motivating application for this work is the tension between the public versus private tradeoff in the automotive industry between firm profit and the public negative externalities of automotive transportation, particularly ...
Essays on Integrating Product Design and Marketing Research.
(2009)
Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...