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Recognising and building on freshman students' prior knowledge of economics [PDF]
, 2011 The results of three surveys of freshman economics students (2008-2010) at the Waikato Management School, New Zealand, suggest that incoming students have significant levels of prior economics knowledge.
Cameron, Michael Patrick, Lim, Steven
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Bayesian Model Averaging in Causal Instrumental Variable Models
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Instrumental variables are a popular tool to infer causal effects under unobserved confounding, but choosing suitable instruments is challenging in practice. We propose gIVBMA, a Bayesian model averaging procedure that addresses this challenge by averaging across different sets of instrumental variables and covariates in a structural equation ...
Gregor Steiner, Mark Steel
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Mean‐Variance Payoff Applied to Stackelberg Games
Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyse a Stackelberg duopoly in which the leader faces uncertainty about the intercept demand, while the follower observes the realised demand and decides whether to enter the market after the uncertainty is resolved. The leader evaluates the uncertainty by maximising a mean‐variance utility function that captures its risk aversion.
João M. Silva +3 more
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The microeconomics of water demand under deficit irrigation: a case study in Southern Spain [PDF]
, 2017 This contribution presents an exploratory analysis of the microeconomics of deficit irrigation (DI) as a technique with growing prevalence in water scarce areas, as it is the case of southern Spain.
Berbel Vecino, Julio +1 more
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Does a Financial Crisis Affect Operating Risk? Evidence from Polish Listed Companies
Economics and Business Review, 2018 In turbulent times of crisis the variability of both EBIT and operating revenue increase in comparison to a relatively stable post crisis period. The main aim of this paper is to investigate this relationship across these two periods.
Kalinowski Sławomir, Puziak Marcin
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Heterodox microeconomics and the foundation of heterodox macroeconomics [PDF]
The resolution of the controversy over the microfoundations of macroeconomics is important to heterodox economics. In this essay, I argue that the controversy is due to misspecification.
Lee, Frederic
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Microeconomics of Knowledge: African Case [PDF]
, 2006 Since the process of globalization era, we can always lived in economics of knowledge. The cicle of economics founded on knowledge are compost by three components: the investment in knowledge; the production and the diffusion of information technology ...
Manuel, Eduardo
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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A microeconomic approach to estimating demand: the asymptotically ideal model [PDF]
Microeconomics
Piyu Yue
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development transforms production systems, requiring integrated environmental, social, and economic strategies. Energy systems are key agro‐industrial supply chains in developing countries. Brazil's soybean supply chain impacts Gross Domestic Product, mainly through exports.
Aline Veronese da Silva +3 more
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