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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Heterogeneous Preferences"”.
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Health and Education Spending and Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia
… possess superior information and respond to heterogeneous preferences. In similar fashion, we also predict that local spending patterns will impact future outcomes. Government collected household survey data and local government expenditure data are used to investigate this theory. While …
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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Health and Education Spending and Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia
… possess superior information and respond to heterogeneous preferences. In similar fashion, we also predict that local spending patterns will impact future outcomes. Government collected household survey data and local government expenditure data are used to investigate this theory. While …
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Essays on Asset Pricing
… and risk sharing with limited enforcement and heterogeneous preferences”, I introduce heterogeneous preferences (heterogeneity in risk aversion and time discount factor) into a two-agent endowment economy with enforcement constraints and aggregate and idiosyncratic income risk (Alvarez and …
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Essays on the structural estimation and analysis of corporate and industrial markets
… observable choice is used as window into the heterogeneous preferences within and across firms, yielding several findings: For example, I find, surprisingly, that firms are very responsive to incorporation and franchise taxes. In addition, on average, firms like anti takeover statutes, but, …
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Essays on Dynamic Demand Estimation
… of storable goods that allows for unobservable heterogeneous preferences in household's tastes. The second chapter uses the estimation strategy developed in the first chapter to study the policy implications of taxes that are imposed on sugary soft drinks. The last chapter explores and provides …
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Consumer's preferences for goat meat in the United States : an application of choice-based conjoint analysis
… there has been limited research on consumers’ preferences for goat meat; therefore, a choice experiment was used to assess consumer preferences for goat meat and/or live goats. A national online survey was conducted from April 27, 2012 to May 4, 2012. Respondents were asked to complete either …
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Three essays on differentiated products and heterogeneous consumer preferences: the case of table eggs
… have raised questions regarding consumer preferences and producer strategies. This dissertation consists of three essays and empirically examines the egg market to shed light on related issues. The first question that this study aims to answer is whether consumers are willing to pay a …
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Economics of innovation: competition, clubs and the environment
… and consumption heterogeneity. Consumers with heterogeneous preferences choose between non-green and certified green products, while firms with heterogeneous production costs decide whether to engage in green production. In order for green products to be recognized by consumers, firms must join …
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Distributed content collection and rank aggregation
… collect their most preferred items. Correlated preferences are modeled as rankings generated by a Plackett-Luce ranking model with Zipf popularity distribution. We establish a performance upper bound and use intuition provided by the bound to design recommendation strategies with a range of …
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Distributed Newton-type algorithms for network resource allocation
… comprise of agents with local information and heterogeneous preferences, making centralized control and coordination impractical. This motivated much interest in developing and studying distributed algorithms for network resource allocation problems, such as Internet routing, data collection …
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Essays in Information Economics
… chain in a population of agents with heterogeneous preferences. The slant has an impact on whether the agents find the news credible and on their incentives to pass the news to others. The analysis elucidates how partisanship of media can be driven by political polarisation of the …
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Essays on Environmental Economics with a Focus on Non-market Valuation
… structure" is established to estimate the heterogeneous preferences for tree cover and other land cover attributes that vary by household socio-economic characteristics and then to identify the housing property owners' demand for these land cover attributes. The first part of this chapter …
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Information, Learning and Incentive Design for Urban Transportation Networks
… analysis to evaluate the impact of multiple heterogeneous information platforms on travelers’ selfish routing decisions, and the resulting network congestion. We compare the value of information provided by multiple platforms to their users, and capture the key trade-off between the gain from …
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The Politics of Constitutional Review: Evidence from the European Court of Justice
… laws that do not conform to their own policy preferences. Their political independence is generally regarded as a normative good. In this work, I consider the microfoundations of judicial preferences and how those preferences interact with institutional independence to determine the policy …
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Industrial Organization Effects of High-Speed Rail Service Introduction in Korea
… demand for travel that incorporates consumers' heterogeneous preferences over travel schedules into a standard discrete choice model. The model treats the rail company's choice of train schedules as endogenous in order to take the firm's choices of product line into account. My results show that …
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising
… studies have shown that (i) donors have heterogeneous preferences over the projects, and (ii) many return to make more than one donation. Facing such donors, the platform’s aim is to match each donor to one of their preferred projects so as to maximize the total donation without …
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Essays in the economics of public housing policy
… location choices, incorporating recipients’ heterogeneous preferences over costs of moving factors, as well as other various dimensions of dwelling and neighborhood attributes. Our main findings suggest that the HCV households are responsive to costs of moving factors indicating that there is …
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The impact of food geography on consumer and producer welfare
… foods, higher prices of healthy foods, or preferences for unhealthy foods. Depending on which of these causes hold, improving access to healthy foods may or may not have an effect on the foods purchased by households living in food deserts. The first chapter of my dissertation studies the …
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Essays on the political economy of European integration
… of the increased heterogeneity of individual preferences in an international union or in a country composed of at least two regions. This thesis stems from this strand of literature and aims to shed some light on two highly relevant aspects of the political economy of European integration. The …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Corporate Finance in Continuous Time
… decisions by examining how heterogeneity in risk preferences of decision-makers influences the joint dynamic of financial policies. Each member receives a non-tradable claim that reflects her risk preference. Claims are convex, S-shaped and concave for investors with the lowest, intermediate and …
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