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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Substitutability"”.
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A New Solution to Market Definition: An Approach Based on Multi-dimensional Substitutability Statistics
… which is based directly on the multi-dimensional substitutability between the products and is capable of maximizing the substitutability of product features within each group. Since the 2010 Guidelines does not exclude the use of models other than the ones mentioned by the Guidelines, our method …
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Essays on Productivity and Structural Change within the Services Sector
… differences. I show that, because of the substitutability between high- and low-productivity growth services sectors (progressive and stagnant services sectors), structural change would not take down aggregate productivity growth further in the future for developed countries. My results …
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Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing
… conclusive evidence regarding the degree of substitutability between non-production workers and capital, they do indicate that the degree of substitutability between production workers and capital is greater than it is between non-production workers and capital.
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Metal price volatility : a study of informative metrics and the volatility mitigating effects of recycling
… is accompanied by a study on how the technical substitutability of secondary metal for primary, termed secondary substitutability, affects the price volatility. The results show that some scarcity risk metrics modeled (alumina price, primary marginal cost, recycling efficiency, and the static …
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Essays in open economy macroeconomics
… The first essay is on imperfect asset substitutability and current account dynamics. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter in this essay is a preface for the chapters to follow. The second chapter lays out a model of the current account in which assets are perfectly …
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Essays on Applied Macro- and Micro-Econometrics
… theory. My results indicate limited substitutability between electricity and natural gas, but strong substitutability between light fuel oil and each of electricity and natural gas in most cases. Essay 3 uses a highly-disaggregated demand system to estimate the degree of …
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How Substitutable are Foreign Varieties: Estimation and Application
… in which product quality relates to product substitutability. The second essay builds on the insight from the first essay and applies the estimation framework from the first essay to study the impact of the surge in Chinese exports to the U.S. on developed countries.
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Empirical study of the aesthetic functionality on color trademarks
… (2) Judges rarely evaluate properly the substitutability of alternative colors; (3) a color’s non-reputation-based advantage (pure attractiveness) is hard to isolate from its reputation as a trademark. This dissertation tries to address the first and second problems. I review …
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Estimating demand for liquid assets
… 2SLS estimates suggest nearly perfect substitutability between treasury securities and financial commercial paper.
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A Framework for Congestion Management Analysis
… examples. We use the framework to quantify the substitutability of a generation resource addition and a transmission transfer capability enhancement for congestion relief. We also apply the framework to the study of the revenue adequacy for the FTR issuer and the design of secondary FTR markets …
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RELATIVE IMPACT OF NATIONAL AND FOREIGN SAVINGS IN THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF SENEGAL
… studies using single equation models support the substitutability hypothesis. In other terms, they show a negative relationship between national and external savings.</p><p>We discuss the various limitations of the single equation models and we propose a "translog" model which allows us to compute …
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The Rational Significance of Desire
… My argument relies on what I call the non-substitutability principle, the thesis that (all things being equal) one cannot substitute something that lacks rational significance, relative to some attitude, A, for something that has rational significance, relative to A, and leave the rational …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… Also, this dissertation finds that input substitutability and firm exports can affect the impact of offshoring on firms' domestic labor demand. Finally, this dissertation finds various workers' characteristics that have affected wage inequality across various quartiles.</p>
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FOUR ESSAYS ON OPTIMAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
… The third essay experimentally explores the substitutability of antitrust detection rates and �nes, and test whether di¤erent �ne and detection rate combinations with constant expected �nes achieve an equal level of deterrence. Lastly, the �nal essay discusses the role of antitrust …
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
… of the strong sustainability concept judge such substitutability as highly limited. I show in a stylized growth model, how social discount rates generally fall for a weak sustainability specification of welfare, while they grow for a strong sustainability specification. It turns out that under …
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Modelling and evaluation of the effects of traffic safety measures Comparative analysis of driving assistance systems and road infrastructure
… formulated: (1) identification of the functional substitutability relationships between driving assistance systems and infrastructure measures; (2) modelling of the fundamental schema of the influence of a measure on road traffic safety; (3) design of a method for comparative analysis of measures …
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Budgetary Redistributive Instruments and Electoral Support
… of its usage across the electoral cycle, and the substitutability of the instruments. The results found that political parties do bias budgetary funds towards their base. However, they tend to use tools, which are less visible to the opposition party and more evident to their base. The results …
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Structural Change in the Retail Demand for Beef, Chicken and Pork: An Application of Gradual Switching Regression (Segmented Regression, Varying Parameters)
… and income) for each meat and an increased substitutability of chicken for beef. Of the three meats selected in the analysis, pork demand appears to be the least affected by the structural change and beef demand appears to be affected the most.
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Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia
… price elasticity that was estimated showed that substitutability in visitation demand existed in all the four parks. This entails that increasing price at one park can effectively influence tourists to move from that park to another.
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Using Lidar Data to Predict Photo Interpreted Attributes
… scale spatial pattern metrics to evaluate the substitutability of the datasets in a mid-scale analysis scenario. Models of photo interpretation attributes describing Overstory Canopy Cover performed better than those describing characteristics of Understory Canopy Cover. Models performed poorly …
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