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Measuring Brand Preferences Among U.S. Meat Consumers with Probit Models
Probit models based on household diaries show the likelihood for buying beef, fish, pork and poultry by brand. Brand preferences for each meat type are estimated and the impacts of a range of variables are ranked according to the likelihood of buying ...
Ward, Ronald W., Ferrara, Oscar
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The Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes in the MENA Countries: a Probit Analysis [PDF]
This paper analysis the choice of exchange regimes of 17 economies in the MENA region for the period 1990-2000. For this purpose we use both de jure and de facto regime classifications and estimate a series of binomial and multinomial probit models ...
Sfia Daly
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The Role of Coincident Information in Real‐Time Business Cycle Forecasting
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Official NBER recession dates are announced with substantial delay. Therefore, real‐time forecasters cannot condition on the most recent business cycle states even though recessions and expansions are highly persistent. I study whether real‐time coincident releases can substitute for this missing information. At each monthly forecast origin, I
Visa Kuntze
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Further offshoring, nearshoring, and reshoring: Exploring the role of experience
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This study examines the role of firms' experience in shaping strategic decisions to relocate offshored activities. Adopting an experiential learning perspective, we test the influence of two types of experience—international production experience and reshoring experience—on the choice of relocating to another foreign country ...
Daniel Pedroletti +2 more
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An analysis of household farm investment decisions under varying land tenure arrangements in Ghana
Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2016 Land tenure insecurity is widely perceived as a disincentive for long-term land improvement investment hence the objective of this paper is to evaluate how tenure (in)security associated with different land use arrangements in Ghana influenced households’
Michael Ayamga +2 more
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A PROBIT MODEL ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMPTION OF FRESH SWEET CORN IN MAJOR U.S. MARKETS
In an effort to more effectively utilize its resources to promote fresh sweet corn, the Fresh Supersweet Corn Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center (FAMRC) of the University of Florida to conduct a comprehensive consumer
Morgan, Kimberly L. +3 more
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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Outpatient specialist physicians in France can work either in the regulated sector, where they charge the regulated fee, or in the unregulated sector, where they set their own fees above the regulated fee. This context provides a unique opportunity to estimate the extent to which patients value services provided under balance billing.
Karine Lamiraud, Radu Vranceanu
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Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using Australian HILDA panel data. The dependent variable is composed of answers to the statement: “Generally speaking, most people can be trusted”.
Viitanen, Tarja
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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Tailoring Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) for environmental mixture studies. [PDF]
PLoS OneYe K, Chen Z, Zhao S.
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