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Hierarchical modeling of choice concentration of US households
(Wiley, 2014)
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Data Description Measures of Choice Concentration Methodology Results Interpreting θ Decomposing the Effects of Time, Number of Decisions and Concentration Preference Conclusion.
Will a fat tax work?
(Wiley, 2016-01)
Of the many proposals to reverse the obesity epidemic, the most contentious is the use of price-based interventions such as the fat tax. Previous investigations of the efficacy of such initiatives in altering consumption ...
Emerging market economies and the world interest rate
(Elsevier, 2015-11)
We use a Factor Augmented VAR model to estimate the dynamic responses of interest rates in emerging market economies to the ‘world’ interest rate, which we extract from a dynamic factor model of yields in industrialized ...
A theory of iterative choice in lists
(Elsevier, 2014-08)
In a list, alternatives appear according to an order and the decision maker follows this order to evaluate alternatives. He records the first alternative as the initial survivor and then at every stage, he compares the ...
An experiment on aspiration-based choice
(Elsevier, 2015-11)
This paper experimentally studies the influence of aspirations on choice. Motivated by the theoretical model of Guney et al. (2015), we consider choice problems which may include unavailable alternatives. In a choice ...
Catching up or drifting apart: convergence of household and business credit in Europe
(Elsevier, 2017)
We provide evidence for convergence in the levels of household and business credit across European countries. The process is particularly strong for the transition countries that have a low initial level of private credit ...
Performance of inflation targeting in retrospect
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)
Both inflation and inflation expectations declined considerably in the inflation targeting countries during the past two decades. The questions of whether this decline has actually been an outcome of inflation targeting ...
The Turkish appetite for gold: An Islamic explanation
(Elsevier, 2016-06)
A significant constituent of household wealth in Turkey is gold. Families accumulate gold especially on a variety of cultural occasions such as female-only gold days, circumcision feasts, and engagement and wedding ceremonies. ...
Accounting for age in marital search decisions
(Elsevier, 2016-06)
Spouse quality, measured by educational attainment, varies significantly with the age at which an individual marries, peaking in the mid-twenties then declining through the early-forties. Interestingly, this decline is ...
Global trends in liquidity creation: The role of the off-balance sheet
(Peter Lang AG, 2019-03-28)
Banks create liquidity by transforming liquid liabilities into illiquid assets and this is one of their main functions. Yet excessive liquidity creation, especially via off-balance sheet activities, might have contributed ...
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