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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"durable goods"”.
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Durable goods and transactions costs : theory and evidence
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1991
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Disintermediating the supply chain of consumer durable goods
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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A Study of the Stochastic Behavior of Durable Goods Consumption
… this thesis examines the stochastic behavior of durables consumption in the rational expectations/permanent income hypothesis framework. The testing in this paper parallels the studies conducted by other researchers, who basing their work mainly on quarterly data rejected the frictionless …
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Revision Cycles For Economics Textbooks: An Application of the Theory of Durable Goods Monopoly
… economics textbook markets as an example of durable goods monopoly. Textbooks are protected by copyrights, and from a student's point of view, different textbooks are not good substitutes because students wish to use the textbook adopted by their instructors. Therefore sellers have market …
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An Application of Multivariate Statistical Techniques for the Study of Consumer Buying Intentions for Durable Goods
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:08:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219940.pdf: 7705488 bytes, checksum: 20fe3c988268030ddc538a5e26ead460 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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An information-acceleration-based methodology for developing preproduction forecasts for durable goods : design, development, and initial validation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Economic theory and estimation of the demand for consumer durable goods and their utilization : appliance choice and the demand for electricity
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1982.
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An Examination of the Influence of Educational and Occupational Characteristics of the Household Head on Expenditure Patterns for Selected Classes of Consumer Durable Goods
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Market work and household production in Brazil
… the expenditure decisions about production goods, such as white appliances, relative to entertainment goods, such as TVs, are the outcome of a bargaining process between husbands and wives. The second paper looks at the demand for maid services and for production durable goods, examining the …
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Capital structure and corporate strategy in South Africa an empirical analysis
… term; and firms that produce unique and / or durable goods tend to have less debt-equity ratio.
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Three Essays on Crime
… crime model with secondary markets for stolen durable goods where agents can be thieves who steal durable goods to consume or exchange them for a profit, and non-thieves who can also demand stolen durable goods in the secondary market. The results indicate that the government must focus their …
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Essays on debt recourse and financial inclusion
… in income elasticities of consumption for non-durable goods among homeowners in recourse and non-recourse states. However, no significant difference is observed for non-homeowners which conforms to the hypothesis that mortgage law shouldn’t affect non-homeowners. Homeowners in recourse states …
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Essays on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand
… chapter analyzes the non-linear response of durable spending to income shocks. Empirically, the average marginal propensity to spend (MPC) on durable goods increases with the size of income changes. I investigate whether a canonical model of lumpy durable investment with incomplete markets …
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Different Uses of Microfinance Among Conventional and Islamic Borrowers: Evidence from Jordan
… home improvement projects and consumer durable goods. Results show that microfinance loan take-ups do lead to a higher probability of business investments. In addition, it is found that the two groups of borrowers do not differ in investments regarding their microenterprises, but Islamic …
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Three essays on nonlinear panel data models and quantile regression analysis
… union membership, migration, purchase of durable goods, marital status, or fertility. The second chapter looks at generalized method of moments estimation in panel data models with individual-specific parameters. An important example of these models is a random coefficients linear model …
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Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets
… among, consumption, financial assets and durable goods, first under perfect capital markets and then when credit constraints are present. The above results may be useful for both, the comparative dynamic analysis of agents with different type of endowments and immersed in imperfect …
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Essays in Macro Finance
… risk premium. For industries like retail and durable goods inflation risk can account for nearly a third of the overall risk premium while the energy industry and a broad commodity index act like inflation hedges. Nominal bonds are exposed to expected inflation risk and have inflation premiums …
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Tax consequences of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
… sites so that profits on consumable and semi-durable goods sold within these areas will not be subject to Income tax; nor will VAT be levied. Tax relief will be given on specific goods and services for qualifying taxpayers, as defined in the Income Tax Act 58/1962 ("The Income Tax Act"), …
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Essays on bargaining and repeated games
… pricing and profits are characterized. For durable goods, a lower bound on optimal profit for any discount factor is provided. The bound converges to the optimal static monopoly profit as the discount factor converges to one, in contrast to the Coase conjecture.
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Search Frictions in Macroeconomics
… or two sellers. In addition, consumers purchase goods that do not perish immediately and are able to postpone transactions. Firms face two types of customers: loyals and shoppers. The presence of a customer base and search frictions imply that a firm takes into account the consumer search method …
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