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Determinants of International Cartel Duration and the Role of Cartel Organization
(2006-10)
New version Sept 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78004
Cognition, Persuasion and Decision Making in Older Consumers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Older adults constitute a rapidly growing demographic segment, but relatively little is known about them within consumer contexts: how they process information, respond to persuasive messages, and make decisions. We discuss ...
Modeling Methods for Discrete Choice Analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-07)
This paper introduces new forms, sampling and estimation approaches fordiscrete choice models. The new models include behavioral specifications oflatent class choice models, multinomial probit, hybrid logit, andnon-parametric ...
Electoral and welfare consequences of political manipulation of the economy
(Elsevier, 1985-06)
This paper examines the long-term electoral and welfare consequences of repeated strategies whereby a political office-holder induces cycles in economic variables to maximize his chances of re-election. Unlike other studies ...
The effect of demand uncertainty on a precommitted monopoly price
(Elsevier, 1989)
Under plausible conditions on the shape of a monopolist's or a monopolistic competitor's cost function, multiplicative demand uncertainty is shown to raise the firm's optimal precommitted price. It is argued that this ...
Transition time paths for overlapping-generations models
(Elsevier, 1984-05)
This paper examines the transition stages between steady states for an overlapping-generations growth model. Our procedure is based on eigenvalues and eigenvectors. For marginal parameter changes, we can generate exact ...
Random earnings differences, lifetime liquidity constraints, and altruistic intergenerational transfers
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
This paper develops a model of private savings behavior in which households care about their descendants, cannot have negative net worth, and have lifetime earnings depending on random draws from an exogenous distribution ...
Selection institutions and war aims
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-01)
We explore how the sizes of the winning coalition and selectorate influence the war aims of states. Leaders who answer to a small winning coalition are more likely to seek territorial gain as a way to increase state ...
The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare: "A Rapid Response Methodology"
(2001-07-01)
Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify ...
A Refinancing Model of Decentralization with Empirical Evidence from China
(2002-04-01)
Decentralization can complement market liberalization by strengthening incentives of agents to exploit local information in response to market signals. In China, however, banks centralized lending authority following ...