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Cui, Fan. "Market access and the choice of market entry mode." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434324.
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Borghans, Alexander Hubertus. "Educational choice and labour market information." Maastricht : Maastricht : Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1993. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6669.
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McLean, Victoria. "Analysing competitive markets through consumer choice : a model for competitive market analysis and related market study." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 1998. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/2448/.
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Competition policy prescriptions have historically been based on beliefs about the most effective and socially acceptable forms of economic organisation. Despite many theoretical developments, there is little agreement between economists over which theoy ensures effective competition in the public interest. This thesis presents a new perspective for analysing competitive markets by making the consumers' interests the prime focus for policy decisions rather than the firms' behaviour. In this approach, consumers determine the level of 'acceptable' competition and identify areas in which competition could be improved, as opposed to policy makers who theoretically determin how to promote 'effective' competition within markets. This view is developed into a new model for Competitive Market Environment Analysis, the validity of which is verified by a quantitative study of the UK Academic and Professional book market. An innovative and quantitative approach to the 'Public Interest Criterion' of competition policy is developed through a statistical gap analysis technique which measures the extent to which consumers' desires/needs are met by their competitive market environment. Within the model, the gap analysis technique uses a 'degree of congruence' as the unifying factor between supply and demand, for which a quantitative measure of zero indicates perfect market equilibrium. Both the model and gap analysis measurement technique are tested on the UK Academic and Professional book market and a particular type of market conduct namely, the Net Book agreement. The analysis shows that consumers of Academic and Professional books have experienced little benefit or detriment from the abrogation of the agreement. Areas for improvement of Academic and Professional book supply are identified and further extensions of this research are proposed. In summary, the thesis offers a new perspective on competition, a new approach to market analysis a new model and methodology for conducting market analysis and a new quantitative measurement technique. The research has significant implications for policy decision, because the focus on consumer welfare within markets, combined with the gap analysis measurement technique, can be used to measure whether forms of market conduct should be viewed as anti-competitive.
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Li, Qian. "Studies of choice behaviors in the Medicare market." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386697.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Economics, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4783. Adviser: Pravin K. Trivedi.
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Deines, Tara. "Market segmentation to become the partner of choice." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32782.
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Master of AgribusinessDepartment of Agricultural Economics
Kevin Gwinner
The agriculture industry has been a dynamic industry exploding with change in recent years. The world has experienced extreme population growth, along with shifts in social status, dietary habits, and consumption patterns that have led to a rapidly growing and changing agriculture industry demanding increasing grain production. The expected pace of production necessary to continue to feed the world has heightened the competition in the agriculture industry. This study focuses on analyzing how Company XYZ, a strong competitor in the grain and ethanol industry, can leverage the opportunities that the growth of the agriculture industry has provided. In order to maximize opportunities with each customer and remain competitive in new territories, the need is presented to develop a repeatable process. This process will focus on determining how to interpret customer preferences to quickly make the company the first preference of choice for target customers as they grow further into North America and beyond. This thesis will focus on understanding and operationalizing two components. First, identifying the most desirable customers and what makes them desirable. Secondly, understanding, anticipating, and consistently addressing the needs of customers to address them better than the competition. To analyze and understand customer habits and behaviors this thesis examines the results of a survey conducted with existing customers. Regression analysis of the overall profitability of a customer to the company and a regression analysis of the customer's ratings of Company XYZ in relation to the competition were used to help identify how the discrimination and segmentation factors impact each regression. A cluster analysis is also implemented with the survey data to segment customers in order to develop a structured plan that can be implemented within the business practices. The cluster analysis revealed three dominant clusters that customers can be segmented into. These clusters, in conjunction with the findings from the regression analyses, help identify areas of strength and weakness to develop a plan of action for Company XYZ to implement. The plan, known as the Partner of Choice, directs the focus on implementing market segmentation to leverage customized marketing opportunities, behavioral management alignment, employee incentive opportunities, and a structured training program.
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Wood, Rebecca S. Jr. "Housing Market Choice Patterns of Single Women Homeowners." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30657.
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Housing researchers are aware of the lower homeownership
rates and other housing problems of single women but there
is very little research focusing on single women
homeowners or the characteristics of the housing they buy.
Also, since a wide body of research can be found that
examines determinants of homeownership for various
population groups, the importance of this study was in its
focus on single women homeowners and the characteristics of
their housing rather than the determinants of ownership for
this group.
Using data from the 1993 American Housing Survey (AHS), the
study sample consisted of 639 women homeowners who were
either widowed, divorced, separated, or never-married, and
who did not own their previous residence. The study's
purpose was to construct a profile of single women home-
owners that included a description of their demographic and
housing characteristics, the means by which they acquired
their homes, and the changes made in their housing when
they became homeowners. Additionally, this study examined
which demographic and previous housing characteristics of
this group were related to the housing characteristics of
their present homes.
Descriptive results from this study suggested that single
women homeowners are primarily middle aged without young
children at home, earn moderate incomes, and that the
largest proportion of them live in the South and metropolitan
areas. When compared to homeowners in general, single women
homeowners' homes cost less and represented a higher proportion
of attached and mobile home units. The results also showed
that single women used low-down payment financing instruments
to a lesser degree than did all homeowners.
Results from statistical analyses suggested that significant
relationships exist between single women homeowners' housing
characteristics, and a) their demographic characteristics,
b) their previous housing characteristics, and c) their reasons
for moving and selecting their current homes and neighborhoods.
Another key finding was that single women homeowners of varying
marital status differed in their present and previous housing
characteristics and their reasons for selecting the current home.
The results of this study support suggestions made by other
researchers that examining differences not only by gender but
also by the variations in marital status will help to clarify
and add to the knowledge of housing and its relevance to
populations of varying social composition.Ph. D.
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Turhan, Bertan. "Essays in Market Design." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104491.
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Thesis advisor: Utku UnverThis dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter: Dynamic reserves in matching markets with contracts. In this paper we study a matching problem where agents care not only about the institution they are assigned to but also about the contractual terms of their assignment so that they have preferences over institution-contractual term pairs. Each institution has a target distribution of its slots reserved for different contractual terms. If there is less demand for some groups of slots, then the institution is given opportunity to redistribute unassigned slots over other groups. The choice function we construct takes the capacity of each group of seats to be a function of number of vacant seats of groups considered earlier. We advocate the use of a cumulative offer mechanism (COM) with overall choice functions designed for institutions that allow capacity transfer across different groups of seats as an allocation rule. In applications such as engineering school admissions in India, cadet-branch matching problems at the USMA and ROTC where students are ranked according to test scores (and for each group of seats, corresponding choice functions are induced by them), we show that the COM with a monotonic capacity transfer scheme produces stable outcomes, is strategy proof, and respect improvements in test scores. Allowing capacity redistribution increases efficiency. The outcome of the COM with monotone capacity transfer scheme Pareto dominates the outcome of the COM with no capacity transfer. The second chapter: On relationships between substitutes conditions. In the matching with contracts literature, three well-known conditions on choice functions (from stronger to weaker)- substitutability, unilateral substitutability (US) and bilateral substitutability (BS) have proven to be critical. This paper aims to deepen our understanding of them by separately axiomatizing the gap between the BS and the other two. We first introduce a new “doctor separability” (DS) condition and show that BS, DS and irrelevance of rejected contracts (IRC) are equivalent to IRC and US. Due to Hatfield and Kojima (2010) and Aygün and Sönmez (2012), it is known that US, “Pareto separability” (PS), and IRC are equivalent to substitutability and IRC. This, along with our result, implies that BS, DS, PS, and IRC are equivalent to substitutability and IRC. All of these results are given without IRC whenever hospital choices are induced from preferences
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
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Bacon, Philomena M. "Tenure Choice, Mortgage Choice, and Lender Behaviour in the Housing Market of England and Wales." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520447.
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Abidin, Shamharir. "Audit market concentration and auditor choice in the UK." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/119.
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Auditing has an important role in the corporate governance process and is essential in ensuring confidence in the reliability of financial information. It is important to understand the reasons why, given the costs involved, companies change their auditor and choose a particular level of audit assurance. To date, however, only a limited number of studies on auditor choice issues are available, especially in the UK setting. Further, since the downfall of Andersen, the audit market environment has changed significantly, creating a new audit environment to be researched. In light of these recent developments, the objectives of this thesis are to address both concentration and auditor choice issues. It is divided into two separate but interrelated parts. The first part of this thesis provides evidence on audit market concentration in the UK domestic listed company market from 1998 to 2003. The effect of Andersen’s demise on both audit market concentration and audit fees is examined. Using four different size measures (number of audits, audit fees, clients’ total assets and sales), three measures of concentration are calculated. Results show that the UK audit market has now clearly surpassed the tight oligopoly threshold and, despite auditing significantly fewer clients in 2003 than in 1998, the B5/4 managed to increase their fee dominance. In particular, the decline in B5/4 ‘number of clients’ market share was mainly due to their lower share of the newly-listed companies audit market. On the other hand, the slight increase in B5/4 audit fee market share was due to the net impact of leavers concentrating the B5/4 share and joiners diluting it. Voluntary switches to/from the B5/4 had a relatively small impact on B5/4 market share for both measures. Following Andersen’s acquisition by Deloitte & Touche, market levels of audit fee and audit fee rate (audit fee scaled by total assets) have increased markedly, suggesting that more audit effort is being expended as a way to restore confidence about audit quality after the damage caused by Andersen’s alleged misconduct. The acquisition has also contributed to a further increase in ‘audit fee’ market concentration for the 4-firm concentration ratio (CR4) and in the overall Hirschman-Herfindahl Index measure. Although, Deloitte & Touche gained significant market share in terms of both audit fees and number of audits through its acquisition of Andersen, it is PricewaterhouseCoopers that continues to hold the largest market share. Deloitte & Touche retained 93 former Andersen clients (74%), 21 (17%) moved to another B5/4 auditor and 11 (9%) chose a non-B5/4 firm. While former Andersen clients paid higher audit fees, in aggregate, the increase was, perhaps surprisingly, less than for the market as a whole. At the industry level, the B4 firms dominated all sectors, the highest non-B5/4 market share in any industry being just 8%. In 2003, PricewaterhouseCoopers was the leader in 18 out of 34 sectors. The second part of the thesis is divided into two separate studies – auditor change determinants and new auditor selection determinants. These studies use a sample of non financial auditor change companies to test logistic regression models of the determinants of auditor change and new auditor selection. The determinant variables include auditee, auditor and audit characteristics. This part also examines the sensitivity of results to alternative functional forms of the basic model specification. Two definitions of auditor quality – brand name auditor and specialism, are employed. Internal governance issues such as audit committee independence, the duality of chairman/CEO as well as the size/quality of the incumbent auditor were found to be significant determinants of auditor change. Expected future growth in the company, rather than past growth, and audit fee reduction were positively related to audit change probability. Result also suggests that companies changed auditor to improve the perception of auditor independence. By contrast, in the new auditor selection models, corporate governance variables did not appear to be important in determining a different quality (brand-name) auditor. Only the chairman/CEO duality variable was weakly and negatively significant, suggesting that duality is associated with a change to a lower quality auditor. Growing companies are more likely to change to a brand name auditor, consistent with the inability of smaller firms to provide services across an international market. Contrary to agency theory predictions, the results show that a company experiencing increased leverage is less likely to choose a B5/4 auditor, suggesting that B5/4 auditors are being selective in avoiding risky clients. Higher audit fees are paid to new auditors by companies that changed from non-B5/4 to B5/4, reflecting a B5/4 fee premium. However, the higher NAS fee result is contrary to initial expectations. Typically, far fewer variables were significant in the models with audit quality proxied by industry specialism. For the specialism models based on audit fee market share, there is counter-intuitive evidence that a company with a large number of subsidiaries is less likely to move to a specialist auditor from a non-specialist. New specialist auditors were more likely to be preferred when a company experienced an increase in current accruals or a reduction in leverage. In general, the results for these models were less strong and were dependent upon the specialist definition adopted. Finally, the thesis provides evidence that the choice of time variant model (ex-ante, contemporaneous or ex-post) made no significant difference to the overall results. The one exception concerns the ‘growth’ variable, where companies are found to change auditor in anticipation of future growth, rather than as a response to past growth. Further, the use of alternative proxy variables does not greatly influence the regression results. One important exception to this general observation concerns the brand name proxy. When brand name was defined as tier12 (to include Grant Thornton and BDO) the significance level was improved in all models. This suggests that, to some degree, Grant Thornton and BDO are viewed as quality service providers closer in quality to B5/4 than to other smaller audit firms.
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Takabatake, Yuji. "Some essays on occupational choice and Japanese labor market." Kyoto University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/136038.
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McCreery, John K. "Worker Flexibility and Process Choice : Responding to Market Demands /." Connect to resource, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1265299158.
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Planakis, Arietta, and Christian Martinsson. "Market Selection and Entry Mode Choice in the European Voluntary Carbon Market : A market analysis for Tricorona Climate Partner." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-155645.
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Su, Xiaomei. "Choice of foreign market entry mode : role of quality difference /." View abstract or full-text, 2008. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ECON%202008%20SU.
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Masiero, Giuliano. "Patient choice of practice in the market for primary care." Thesis, University of York, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411467.
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Borchert, Oliver M. "Key marketing factors in SMEs' international market entry mode choice." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2016. http://digitool.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27532.
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COLONNA, FABRIZIO. "Essays on labor market." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/846.
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In Chapter 1, I provide a simple empirical model to
estimates return to college, accounting for unobservable ability.
Contrary to previous results I find that
endogenous self selection generates an upward bias in OLS estimates. Corrected estimations show that Italian and US Return to college are very similar.
In Chapter 2, I study the effect of labor market
institutions on schooling choice. I introduce college decision in a
search on-the-job model, where wage offers distribution depends on
workers' innate ability and schooling level. The interaction between
workers' heterogenous abilities and labor market structure
endogenously determine both college wage premium and college
decisions. As in the classical search on-the-job model, higher labor
mobility and higher wage dispersion increase workers' probability to
reach the right tail of the wage distribution. This provide agents
with a larger incentive to shift wage distribution to the right by
attending school. The model fits US and Italian data, two countries
that present wide differences in educational achievements.
Specifically, the US presents a larger college premium, higher
enrollment and graduation rates in college. I find that the labor
markets in US and Italy differ significantly in two dimensions. The
US is characterized by i) higher job mobility and ii)higher return
of innate ability. The former accounts for around 30% of the
different enrollment and graduation rates. The latter rises the
observed college premium in US above Italy, despite the effect of
schooling on wage being higher in Italy, and can account for almost
50% of differences in educational attainment.
In Chapter 3, I develop a model of voluntary union
membership, where unions provide excludable employment protection to
members, by supporting them in case of dismissal conflicts and
enforcing higher firing costs. In Europe, where closed shops are
exceptional and often unconstitutional, membership rates
significantly vary across countries. When calibrated to match the
features of labor markets in different European countries, the model
is able to account for both heterogeneity of membership rates across
Europe and the pattern of (de)unionization observed in the 90s.
Specifically I find that membership rates i) are low in countries
where public employment protection is stronger, and/or available to
a wider fraction of workers; ii) decrease when low unemployment
duration reduces the welfare loss of a dismissal.
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Wegg-Prosser, Victoria. "BBC producer choice and the management of organisational change." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4380.
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Producer Choice was the title given to the trading system, designed around an internal market, which was introduced at the BBC in the years between 1991 and 1994. The initiative represented the biggest organisational change in the BBC's history. The political background to Producer Choice was conditioned by the perceived need of the BBC to ensure renewal of its ten-year Charter in 1996. Producer Choice helped to secure Charter Renewal because it provided the means whereby new accountability and cost measurements were set in place. The 'command economy' of the old BBC was to be replaced with an internal market, and the organisation given an enhanced managerial focus. Using a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, an analysis of all relevant documentation, and the application of theory concerning processual models of change, the nature of bureaucracy, changes in public sector management and the shift from hierarchy to marketisation, the thesis answers three questions: What is Producer Choice? How has it been implemented? What have been its outcomes? The thesis concludes by drawing out some analytical generalisations about the management of change regarding the 'process of sanctification', the effects of divisionalisation on organisational cohesion, and the characteristics of internal markets.
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Kitchenko, O. N. "Choice of marketing strategy of price determination." Thesis, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут", 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/47019.
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Buchta, Christian, Sara Dolnicar, Roman Freitag, Friedrich Leisch, David Meyer, Andreas Mild, and Martina Ossinger. "Is thinking worthwhile? A comparison of corporate segment choice strategies." SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/750/1/document.pdf.
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The field of strategic marketing has long been identified as fruitful ground for gaining competitive advantage. Ever since the market segmentation concept was introduced in the late sixties, research interest steadily increased, covering issues as e.g. which fundamental segmentation strategy is most appropriate, in which ways can segments be identified or constructed, which algorithm provides optimal data-driven segmentation solutions, which number of segments should be constructed etc.. Interestingly, the issue of segment evaluation and choice has not been emphasised very strongly in the past, although this is of primary interest as soon as it comes to practical implementation. This article tries to fill this gap in an experimental manner: the consequences of different corporate segment choice strategies based on different segment evaluation criteria are investigated under different environmental conditions formalised in a complex artificial consumer market. The results indicate that complex decision models for segment choice do not turn out to be superior in general. Both mass marketers and firms concentrating on particular segments based on an a priori logic can be just as successful under "favourable" market conditions, the most influential condition being the available advertising budget. (author's abstract)Series: Working Papers SFB "Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science"
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Sanner, Helge. "Price responses to market entry with and without endogenous product choice." Universität Potsdam, 2005. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2007/1439/.
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Textbook wisdom says that competition yields lower prices and higher consumer surplus than monopoly. We show in two versions of a simple location-product differentiation model with and without endogenous choice of products that these two results have to be qualified. In both models, more than half of the reasonable parameter values lead to higher prices with duopoly than with monopoly. If the product characteristics are exogenous to the firms, consumers may even be be better off with monopoly in average.
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Zeng, Han. "Three essays on consumer choice behavior in the health insurance market." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3283963.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Economics, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4407. Advisers: Fwu-Ranq Chang; Tong Li. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 20, 2008).
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Payne, Daisy. "Pakistani women in the labour market : exploring structure, choice, and constraint." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19362/.
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This research uses a mixed-method approach to build on previous research which has shown Pakistani women have low rates of labour market participation. In doing so, this thesis contributes to the argument that intersectionality is crucial when exploring labour market participation, whilst contributing to a body of research that continues to problematise the gendered nature of labour market participation in the UK. Through the exploration of factors relating to life-stage, education, and skills, this thesis demonstrates a variety of ways Pakistani women might seek to participate in the labour market, and therefore differ in the types of support they need. Although cultural preferences do have an impact, this thesis characterises Pakistani women’s labour market participation as heavily constrained by structural factors, shaped by a climate of Islamophobia as well as a labour market that is persistently gendered, and therefore challenges lay conceptions of Muslim women as ‘submissive’ and ‘oppressed’. This thesis makes policy suggestions that aim to support Pakistani women who wish to participate in the labour market, as well as those who are distanced from the labour market, and suggests that future research could consider Pakistani women’s experiences in the work place, and could also explore the experiences of a wider range of ethnic groups.
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Moreira, Joana Conceição 1975. "The use of market research methods in understanding choice transit riders." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80950.
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Williams, Alan R. "The Officeminium : alternative tenure choice in the Office Business Center market." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33177.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
In title on t.p. "Officeminium" is followed by the trademark symbol.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68).
The Office Business Center (OBC) is a shared office facility, which is fully equipped, staffed and furnished. Many small business and sole proprietors choose OBC space over traditional leased office space because it alleviates the upfront cost and time required to maintain and manage an effective office infrastructure. Additionally, the persistence of low commercial mortgage interest rates have helped to witness a rise in office space ownership through the growth of the office condominium market- a market which is also dominated by small businesses and sole proprietorships. This thesis investigates the viability of a new real estate product, the Officeminium(TM). The Officeminium(TM) is a hybrid product which combines the ownership tenure of the office condominium and the full service environment of an OBC. The Officeminium(TM) provides a subset of small business owners and small proprietors with a hedge against rent risk and opportunistic agency, while affording office building owners and developers with a means to reduce excess building capacity and potentially increase the value of their real estate asset.
by Alan R. Williams.
S.M.
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Chen, Yan. "Information, consumer choice and firm strategy in an experience good market." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8732.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Gartell, Marie. "Educational choice and labor market outcomes : essays in empirical labor economics /." Stockholm : Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-31043.
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LACZI, RENATA. "Emerging Market Multinationals and Location choice: determinants, motives and future avenues." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Pavia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11571/1343642.
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Moore, Curt B., Igor Filatotchev, R. Greg Bell, and Abdul A. Rasheed. "Foreign IPO capital market choice: understanding the institutional fit of corporate governance." Wiley Periodicals Inc, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.1953.
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While product market choices have been central to strategy formulation for firms in the past, the integration of financial markets makes the choice of capital markets an equally important strategic decision. We advance a comparative institutional perspective to explain capital market choice by firms making an IPO in a foreign market. We find that internal governance characteristics (founder-CEO, executive incentives, and board independence) and external network characteristics (prestigious underwriters, degree of venture capitalist syndication, and board interlocks) are significant predictors of foreign capital market choice by foreign IPO firms. Our results suggest foreign IPO firms select a host market where the firms' governance characteristics and third party affiliations fit the host market's institutional environment.
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Islam, Silvia Zia, and silvia islam@rmit edu au. "Choice of financing method with market timing and liquidity: evidence from Australia." RMIT University. Economics, Finance and Marketing, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091029.135938.
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This thesis examines the capital structure choice of Australian firms with an emphasis on the impact of market timing and liquidity considering 1438 available firms for the period, 1997 to 2005. The relationship between capital structure and its determinants is the main focus of this thesis, with four empirical analyses. These analyses are all conducted within the Baker and Wurgler (2002) and Hovakimian (2006) models with both pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effect panel analysis. The theory of market timing introduced by Baker and Wurgler (2002) has received considerable attention in recent years. Baker and Wurgler (2002) contend that past market timing has a long lasting impact on capital structure and thus, capital structure is the cumulative outcome of the past attempts at equity market timing. This thesis examines the Baker and Wurgler (2002) argument in an Australian context. It is found that the variation in leverage was explained by the market-to-book ratio and the effect of market-to-book ratio was explained by equity issues as market timing theory implies. However, the results are sensitive to data sample choice with variation in the strength of the negative relationship observed between external finance weighted average market-to-book and leverage. This suggests that while market timing appears to affect capital structure choice, it does not support the hypothesis that past market timing decisions have a long lasting impact on Australian firm capital structure. Hovakimian ( 2006) questions the Baker and Wurgler (2002) conclusion about firm behaviour and finds evidence that past market-to-book ratio has a significant impact on current financing decisions because it contains information about growth opportunities, not captured by the current market-to-book ratio. This thesis also examines the Hovakimian (2006) argument and finds evidence to support the argument of Hovakimian (2006) that, growth opportunities provide a reasonable explanation for the past market-to-book ratio effect for Australian firms. Analysis also focuses on broad industry differences. And it is found that there are significant differences between mining and non-mining firm in the determinants of capital structure. Finally, the impact of liquidity on Australian capital structure choice is analysed within the context of the Baker and Wurgler (2002) and Hovakimian (2006) models. It is found that liquidity is important to a firm's leverage choice. There is evidence that liquid firms tend to have lower leverage. Further, while liquidity has little effect on the sensitivity of leverage to market-to-book for Baker and Wurgler (2002) filtered data, a liquidity effect is evident in a broader set of four standard deviation filtered data. It is also found that greater liquidity is associated with less sensitivity of leverage to cash flows and that the asset tangibility relation with leverage is also sensitive to liquidity. Finally, there is evidence that more liquid firms are more sensitive in their tendency to revert to some long run leverage value.
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Tantu, Feleke, and Md Ashiqur Rahman. "Emerging markets: A case study on foreign market entry in Bangladesh." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12087.
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Abstract Title: Emerging Markets – A Case Study in Foreign Market Entry toBangladesh Keywords: emerging market, entry strategy, market entry, factors behind entry choice, entry mode, entry node, entry timing Background: Internationalism and international marketing are hot topics among the strategy discussions of the companies and as a result companies continuously look for new, unreached sales potential to their products and services as well as better use of their resources. Purpose: To find the most efficient international market entry strategy for companies moving from developed/transition economy to an emerging market. Theoretical framework: The base for the start of internationalisation process is company’s inner motives and resources. Motives and resources combined with the cultural distance, competition and general external environment of host country form potential company-specific risks for the entry to foreign market. Potential customers in combination with company resources shows how big is the match between market demand and what company can offer and therefore determines the potential reward. Risks and reward are both input to the decision making process where the potential benefits and drawbacks are analysed against each other. The output of this decision making is the entry strategy. Methodology: Internet was mainly used to collect secondary data about company resources, cultural distance and external environment. Interviews with 150 retailers inBangladesh were conducted to collect primary data about the competition and consumer behaviours in the hosiery market ofBangladesh. Then comparative analysis was made based on the model developed by the authors to reach to the decision. Conclusion: The most effective entry strategy for the entry to emerging markets is indirect exporting through an agent in case there is high location risk, moderately high competition risk, medium country risk and moderately low demand risk, the company has no surplus finances for big investments and no prior experience in doing business in an emerging market.
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Lengers, Jochen [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Ehrmann. "Strategic choice, market evolution and business outcomes / Jochen Lengers ; Betreuer: Thomas Ehrmann." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1138284521/34.
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Cirincione, Robert Joseph. "A study of optimal automotive materials choice given market and regulatory uncertainty." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50609.
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Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).
This present thesis hypothesized that the increasing demand for fuel-efficient vehicles, recently updated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation, and volatile U.S. sales markets may foreshadow a shift in the competitiveness of lightweight alternative materials relative to incumbent steels. To test this hypothesis, a novel automotive materials selection methodology was developed which evaluates the net present value (NPV) of vehicle projects by incorporating five integrated models: (1) an ADVISORbased vehicle performance model, (2) a market model that predicts expected annual sales, (3) a cost model that maps technology decisions and sales levels to fixed and variable costs, (4) a binomial lattice model of demand uncertainty, and (5) a regulatory model that mimics CAFE. The integrated model solves materials selection problems by optimization, using explicit simulation to find the set of materials choices for which the NPV of a vehicle project is maximized. A case study was developed to illuminate the competitive dynamics between incumbent steel and lightweight composite materials in two vehicle subsystems (body-in-white, closure set) and three vehicle markets (small car, mid-size car, luxury car). The results suggest that the value of acceleration improvements due to a lightweight materials enabled vehicle mass reduction is greater than the value of concurrent fuel economy improvements. When the value of acceleration improvements and fuel economy improvements are considered, the production volume at which it becomes economically efficient to switch from using composites to using steel shifts from the cost-competitive production volume to a higher one. The magnitude of this shift depends on the degree to which the car market values performance improvements and the rate at which composites become more costly than steel. Generally, more stringent CAFE policies were found to improve composite materials' competitiveness to a greater degree than the effects of demand uncertainty.
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Wylie, John D. (John David). "The impact of equity market fragmentation and the increased frequency of order book events on market and instrument choice." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28825.
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This dissertation examines the impact of differential implicit and explicit transaction costs on market and instrument choice when liquidity has fragmented. Contributions to the literature are made by addressing a number of fundamental questions that have received scarce consideration in the existing literature.
The empirical literature on market choice and the impact of fragmentation on market quality focuses on the spread and depth dimensions of liquidity, given that these are the first—order determinants of a transaction’s implicit cost. However, seminal theoretical literature identifies quote resiliency, defined as the rate at which new passive orders arrive, as an incremental dimension of liquidity. The first study of this dissertation extends the extant empirical literature on market choice to consider the relative contribution of liquidity dimensions, particularly resiliency, to the utility a trader derives when choosing a market from alternatives. Resiliency is likely to be of importance in an environment characterised by high—frequency interactions, as resilient quotes partially mitigate the risk that an offer to supply liquidity is withdrawn while an aggressive order is in transmission to the chosen market. Unlike the previous literature, which models competing markets one at a time, this study develops a single model for the choice decision across all fragmented markets. This parameterisation is significant as it allows the relative importance of the various dimensions of liquidity to be directly compared.
The second study fills a void in the burgeoning literature on the market quality impact of heightened participation by algorithmic traders. Previous published studies have only examined the impact of increased algorithmic participation on individual markets. This study exploits the natural experiment presented by the duopolistic market for trading FTSE 100 index constituents shortly after the November 2007 introduction of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive in Europe. The behaviour of passive offers to supply liquidity which are withdrawn at varying frequencies is contrasted for the incumbent London Stock Exchange and the entrant Chi—X Multilateral Trading Facility. The event of order cancellation is used to proxy participation by algorithmic traders on both markets and allows this study to further differentiate itself from the scarce existing literature by testing for Granger causality between heightened algorithmic participation and intraday volatility. Weak evidence is identified which suggests that proportionally greater participation by algorithmic traders does not catalyse future volatility. This result is then explored in a seemingly unrelated regression framework which effectively ‘conditions’ on cross-market events.
The third study examines the temporal relationship between contracts for difference (CFDs) traded over-the-counter and exchange-traded cash equities. While the extant literature robustly considers temporal relationships between a range of derivatives and their underlying securities, none of this literature examines over-the-counter trading in CF Ds. A stamp
duty exemption for CFDs in the United Kingdom creates an explicit
transaction cost asymmetry which has fuelled the rapid growth of the CFD
market and may be likely to attract informed traders to this instrument. This
study identifies incremental support for the previously documented
importance of transaction costs and leverage to informed traders selecting
an instrument from alternatives. Previous literature suggests price discovery
for cash equities is concentrated on exchanges instead of the over—thecounter
market. This study capitalises on the unique structure of the CFD
market in the United Kingdom to explore the established notion that the
process of over-the-counter negotiation tends to screen out informed traders
when interactions are repeated.
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Hullgren, Maria. "Essays on mortgage rate choice in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Bygg- och fastighetsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-129030.
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Buying a home is for many households the financially most important purchase they will make. The choice of mortgage instrument is also of importance in that it will determine a household’s financial exposure. In the aftermath of the 2007–2008 financial crisis in the United States, the potential consequences for borrowers and the financial system became apparent in many countries. Even though the choice of mortgage is described as a very complex transaction, international studies have found that borrowers are less than optimally knowledgeable about the possible future consequences of their choice. This lack of knowledge has raised concern and prompted calls for more research on differences between mortgage markets and factors affecting consumers’ mortgage choice. This thesis answers this call by empirically exploring the Swedish case and by offering an expanded knowledge about factors that influence borrowers’ mortgage choice. The thesis consists of five papers, and, in most cases, interviews and questionnaires were used to collect the data, depending on which type of data collection was considered best suited to serve the purpose of the individual paper. A close reading approach was also applied in one of the papers. The findings indicate that in a Swedish setting, there are factors affecting borrowers’ mortgage choice that have not previously been fully explored in the literature: the media and bank advisors. During the period studied, a negative correlation existed between the media and the choice of fixed rate mortgages, whereas a positive correlation existed between bank advisors and the choice of fixed rate mortgages. The study on advice given by a bank advisor also shows the advocacy of a mix of fixed and adjustable mortgage rates. Further findings corroborate those of earlier international studies, such as the impact of income, education, financial literacy and loan-to-value ratios on mortgage choice. A general conclusion that can be drawn from the findings in the Swedish context is that the most financially vulnerable borrowers—those with lower income, lower education and/or higher loan-to-value ratios—are more likely to choose higher levels of fixed rate mortgages (or lower levels of adjustable rate mortgages). In doing so, they avoid exposing themselves to liquidity problems, which can be caused by increasing mortgage rates, and make future mortgage expenditures more predictable. These findings contradict much of the concern that both scholars and financial authorities have expressed about households’ choice of mortgage instrument. Hence, these findings are of importance not only to research on mortgage choice but also to policymakers and the financial industry.QC 20130924
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Jain, Naveen K. "Resource, Strategies, Location Determinants, And Host Country Location Choice By Emerging Market Firms." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/147.
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The extant literature had studied the determinants of the firms’ location decisions with help of host country characteristics and distances between home and host countries. Firm resources and its internationalization strategies had found limited attention in this literature. To address this gap, the research question in this dissertation was whether and how firms’ resources and internationalization strategies impacted the international location decisions of emerging market firms. To explore the research question, data were hand-collected from Indian software firms on their location decisions taken between April 2000 and March 2009. To analyze the multi-level longitudinal dataset, hierarchical linear modeling was used. The results showed that the internationalization strategies, namely market-seeking or labor-seeking had direct impact on firms’ location decision. This direct relationship was moderated by firm resource which, in case of Indian software firms, was the appraisal at CMMI level-5. Indian software firms located in developed countries with a market-seeking strategy and in emerging markets with a labor-seeking strategy. However, software firms with resource such as CMMI level-5 appraisal, when in a labor-seeking mode, were more likely to locate in a developed country over emerging market than firms without the appraisal. Software firms with CMMI level-5 appraisal, when in market-seeking mode, were more likely to locate in a developed country over an emerging market than firms without the appraisal. It was concluded that the internationalization strategies and resources of companies predicted their location choices, over and above the variables studied in the theoretical field of location determinants.
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Xu, Weihuan. "Experimental choice analysis of non-market values for ecosystem management with preference heterogeneity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5576.
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Staus, Alexander [Verfasser]. "Determinants of Store and Store Type Choice in the Food Market / Alexander Staus." Aachen : Shaker, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1084535793/34.
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Du, Toit Sedik. "Parental Choice in South African High Schools: An urban Cape Town Case Study." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2008. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9351_1258028191.
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This study examines how families judge and choose high schools. The review of literature relating to school choice provides a theoretical framework for the study. The review includes an international perspective including both developed countries such as United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, England and Wales, the Netherlands, Scotland and Sweden, and developing countries including India, Chile, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa. The context within which school choice occurs in South Africa is examined. This context includes continued influence of Apartheid policies and current legislation including the South African Schools Act, The Admission Policy for Ordinary Schools Act and the Norms and Standards for Schools Funding. The literature review includes a critical analysis of the research, both Local and International, which addresses questions as to which factors are considered when judging and choosing schools, who makes the choice school, when the choice of school is made and which sources of information inform the choice of school. The empirical study examines the process of high school choice in urban Cape Town. The group areas Act and other Apartheid policies have created a situation where the respondents have a large number of high schools from which to chose. The selected area reflects diversity in Socio-Economic status, including both privately owned homes and council rental flats and houses. The study is limited to English medium or dual medium schools in the area. It includes both co-ed and single gender schools.
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Pierk, Jochen. "Three essays on determinants of accounting choice." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17059.
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Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei empirischen Papieren, die verschiedene Anreize von Manager bezüglich einer Beeinflussung der Rechnungslegung untersuchen. Das erste Papier untersucht die Wechselwirkung von Produktmarktregulierung und Rechnungslegung. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Manager frühzeitig neue Rechnungslegungsregeln anwenden, um regulierte Preise in der Versorgungswirtschaft zu beeinflussen. Der zweite Teil der Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit sich persönliche Eigenschaften von Managern (Selbstüberschätzung) in der Rechnungslegung widerspiegeln. Ihre Fähigkeiten überschätzende Manager haben zu hohe Erwartungen bezüglich der zukünftigen Zahlungsüberschüsse ihres Unternehmens. Das Papier zeigt, dass diese Manager bei Amtsantritt mit einer geringeren Wahrscheinlichkeit das Periodenergebnis negativ beeinflussen (Earnings bath). Das letzte Papier der Dissertation untersucht die Berichterstattung von Unternehmen, die an europäischen, börsenregulierten Aktienmärkten notiert sind. Insbesondere liegt der Fokus auf der freiwilligen Anwendung der International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) und der freiwilligen Veröffentlichung von Quartalsinformationen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Verkauf von Aktien an institutionelle Investoren zum Zeitpunkt des Börsengangs positiv mit der freiwilligen Anwendung der IFRS korreliert, jedoch nicht mit der freiwilligen Veröffentlichung von Quartalsinformationen.This cumulative doctoral thesis consists of three papers. Each part investigates empirically different aspects of the incentive structure of managers to influence the accounting outcome. The first paper examines the interplay of product market regulation and financial reporting. It shows that managers early adopt a new accounting regime if accounting numbers are used by regulators to set prices in utility industries. The second paper argues that reporting decisions of managers are influenced by personal characteristics (overconfidence). Overconfident managers overestimate their abilities and consequently have upwardly biased expectations concerning future firm cash flows. More specifically, the paper shows that overconfident CEOs are less likely to engage in an earnings bath at CEO turnover. The last paper investigates reporting choices of firms in European exchange-regulated markets. In particular, it sheds light on the voluntary adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and on the decision to voluntarily provide quarterly financial information. The findings indicate that the likelihood of voluntary IFRS adoption increases with the proportion of stocks sold to institutional investors upon IPO while the likelihood to provide quarterly information does not.
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Natter, Martin, and Markus Feurstein. "Individual level or segmentation based market simulation?" SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1746/1/document.pdf.
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In many studies, choice based conjoint analysis is used to build a market simulator to develop marketing strategies; i.e., shares-of-preference are taken as market share forecasts. However, conjoint data are collected in interview situations, which may differ considerably from real shopping behavior. In this paper, we test the internal and external validity of four commercial choice based conjoint pricing studies including a total of 43 brands. We use conjoint and sales data to assess the relative performance of two modern approaches to estimate conjoint parameters: the segmentation based Latent Class model and the individual level Hierarchical Bayes approach. Our paper confirms previous results of the internal superiority of the Hierarchical Bayes approach. The main result of our investigation is that internal validity does not predict external validity and that Latent Class shows the same real world performance as Hierarchical Bayes. Both models show an average error of 4.2% in market share level prediction and a correlation of 69% between conjoint forecasts and real market shares. (author's abstract)Series: Working Papers SFB "Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science"
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Steiner, Bodo Ernst. "In vino qualitas : an hedonic analysis of wine consumers behaviour." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323512.
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Jansson, Thomas. "Essays on household portfolio choice." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Finansiell Ekonomi (FI), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-928.
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Raza, Saqlain. "Essays on complementarity : organizational and market changes in agriculture." Thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014INPT0017/document.
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Cette thèse vise à tester pour l’existence d’effet de complémentarités entre différentes activités économiques dans le secteur agricole. Pour cela, nous mobilisons les deux approches que proposent la littérature, à savoir l’approche par la productivité et l’approche par l’adoption. Nous commençons par une revue de la littérature sur l’économie de la complémentarité, en nous focalisant sur ces deux approches de la complémentarité et ses modèles empiriques. Nous proposons ensuite trois analyses empiriques permettant de tester ces modèles. La première explore les déterminants du choix de marque et/ou de signes des qualité par les petites coopératives agricoles françaises, avec un focus particulier sur la coexistence de ces deux signes. La seconde fournit un test direct de complémentarité entre labels et marques en recourant à l’approche par l’adoption. En estimant un probit multinomial, il est en effet possible de séparer l’effet de complémentarité de celui de l’hétérogénéité inobservable. La troisième introduit l’approche par la productivité, en sus de l’approche par l’adoption, pour tester de cet eet de complémentarité dans les systèmes de polyculture élevage adoptés par les petits exploitants de la province du Pendjab au PakistanThe main objective of this thesis is to test for complementarity between different economic activities in agriculture. To do this, we have recourse to the two approaches proposed by the literature, i.e. the productivity approach and the adoption approach. First, we review the economics of complementarity and analyze the different empirical models to test for complementarity. Then, we propose three empirical analyses testing these models. The first examine closely the drivers of the branding and labeling strategies from French small agricultural co-operatives, with a focus on the coexistence of both quality signals. The second directly test for complementarity between branding and labeling using the adoption approach, by estimating a multinomal probit. This allow us to separate what is really due to complementarity and what is caused by unobserved heterogeneity. Third, in addition to adoption approach, we test for complementarity using a productivity approach in the mixed farming systems adopted by smallholder farmers in Punjab, Pakistan
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Schmitt, Christian Carl. "Institutional capability, speed of internationalisation and entry mode choice: Evidence from Indian firms." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28884.
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Significant research has focused on the importance of both home and host country institutions for firm internationalisation. Going beyond institutions and institutional distance, more recent research has examined the effects of home country institutional change on domestic firms’ internationalisation. I contribute to this debate and argue that firms develop institutional capabilities as a result of home country institutional change. While firms are exposed to the same home country institutional change, I show that institutional capability development is a firm-specific process that affects a firm’s speed of internationalisation and entry mode choice.
Using the context of Indian pro-market reforms, I show that institutional capabilities enable a firm to pursue a first internationalisation faster. I also introduce the novel dimension of institutional change similarity with regard to the relationship between institutional capabilities and time to first internationalisation. Going beyond the first internationalisation, I show that institutional capabilities increase a firm’s rapidity of internationalisation beyond the first. Subsequently, I provide three moderating variables that facilitate and contribute to the further development of institutional capabilities during repeated internationalisations, and thus positively moderate the relationship between institutional capabilities and rapidity of internationalisation.
Finally, I research the role of institutional capabilities in a firm’s entry mode choice and show that institutional capabilities increase a firm’s reliance on M&A. I posit that entering various host countries gives rise to global experience, thereby lessening the importance of institutional capabilities that had been developed in the home country for choosing M&A. Further, I propose that a host country’s incremental institutional distance increases the importance of a firm’s institutional capability base for the likelihood of choosing M&A.
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Amaya, Urquieta Nadezda Rosa. "Effects of access to information on farmer's market channel choice: The Case of Potato in Tiraque Sub-watershed (Cochabamba - Bolivia)." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36340.
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In Bolivia, potato production and marketing is important for farmersâ livelihoods and anecdotal information shows that cell phones and women are extremely important in the potato marketing chain. Efforts to improve incomes of poor highland potato producers should recognize roles of different actors within the chain and access to market information. This study explores the effects of access to information and gender relations within the potato chain; on farmersâ market channel choice in the Tiraque Watershed (Bolivia). The analysis of qualitative information was useful to deepen the understanding of the subject and complement quantitative analysis outcomes. The main source of data comes from a survey of 400 households from the watershed. Additionally, Rapid Market Appraisal and Case Studies were used to collect qualitative data. These data was used to estimate two econometric models (Logit and MNL) to evaluate the importance of farmers and marketing characteristics on market choices. This analysis demonstrates that the determinants that affect market channel choice include marketing (time to reach the markets and the nearest paved road), production (number of plots owned by farmers) and household related variables (access to loan, cell phone ownership, location and age of the head of the household). On the other hand, some results were different than expected, that is the case of motorized transport ownership, and literacy. Another unexpected result is that even though the qualitative analysis shows that gender plays an important role in marketing activities; the econometric analysis shows that gender has no effect on farmerâ s market choices.Master of Science
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Fahr, René. "Occupational mobility and occupational matching: some implications for career choice and labor market policy /." Berlin : Dissertation.de, 2003. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=010562284&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Soopramanien, Didier Gerard Rodney. "Gender effects in the labour market : modelling the participation decision and the occupational choice." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274205.
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Gorard, Stephen A. C. "School choice in an established market : families and fee-paying schools in South Wales." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364340.
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English, Rebecca Maree. "School choice in a new market context: A case study of The Shelbyville College." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16027/1/Rebecca_English_Thesis.pdf.
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Since the 1990s in Australia, education policies have created an environment in which competition among schools has increased and parental choice of school has been encouraged. This has been coupled with practices of corporatisation, marketisation and performativity, which have led to the proliferation of a new type of independent school, which operate in the outer suburbs of large cities, target a specific niche market, and charge low cost fees.
This study examines the reasons parents are making the choice to send their children to a new, non-government schools in preference to other alternatives and the role of promotional material produced by the school in that choice. The case study of one such school, The Shelbyville College, involved in-depth interviewing of parents at the College as well as a Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough) of the College's prospectus and website which act as performative tools to measure the school's effectiveness in the market.
Using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural capital, the study showed that parents interviewed were choosing this type of school to increase the educational and social status and career prospects of their children as 'extraordinary children'. Through such discourses, parents as consumers of particular schooling products and their engagement with the promotional activities of the College are produced as 'good parents'. Seeking and engaging with promotional material helped remove any dissonance that may occur from a long and expensive relationship with the institution. In choosing this particular school, parents were seeking 'good Christian values' and the freedom to actively engage in their children's education.
The College, through its promotional efforts, promises to build on familial habitus and inculcate valued cultural capital in order to make students more successful academically and socially than their parents. The promotional materials of the website and prospectus emphasised the co-curricular involvement in music, speech and drama and invite parents into a discourse of success through the College's educational offering which creates 'extraordinary children'. The uniform mandated by the College is another 'text' in the production of extraordinary children as outlined in the prospectus and website and is an important site for identity production. The uniform demonstrates, not only the disciplinary regime and preparation for professional dress, but also the prestige and esteem derived from the consumption of high status products such as non-government schooling.
It is expected that the findings of this study will have relevance for government schools that are the primary competition for new, non-government schools and will lose funding if they continue to lose students. The study will have some implications for CEO (Catholic Education Office) schools that have traditionally provided a low-cost alternative to the government sector. Parents in the study reported choosing the new, non-government school because of differences in values, and perceptions of safety and status improvement offered by these schools. The continued success of the new, non-government schools is also likely to have broader effects on social and educational inequality in Australia through their effects on the government school sector.
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English, Rebecca Maree. "School choice in a new market context: A case study of The Shelbyville College." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16027/.
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Since the 1990s in Australia, education policies have created an environment in which competition among schools has increased and parental choice of school has been encouraged. This has been coupled with practices of corporatisation, marketisation and performativity, which have led to the proliferation of a new type of independent school, which operate in the outer suburbs of large cities, target a specific niche market, and charge low cost fees. This study examines the reasons parents are making the choice to send their children to a new, non-government schools in preference to other alternatives and the role of promotional material produced by the school in that choice. The case study of one such school, The Shelbyville College, involved in-depth interviewing of parents at the College as well as a Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough) of the College's prospectus and website which act as performative tools to measure the school's effectiveness in the market. Using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural capital, the study showed that parents interviewed were choosing this type of school to increase the educational and social status and career prospects of their children as 'extraordinary children'. Through such discourses, parents as consumers of particular schooling products and their engagement with the promotional activities of the College are produced as 'good parents'. Seeking and engaging with promotional material helped remove any dissonance that may occur from a long and expensive relationship with the institution. In choosing this particular school, parents were seeking 'good Christian values' and the freedom to actively engage in their children's education. The College, through its promotional efforts, promises to build on familial habitus and inculcate valued cultural capital in order to make students more successful academically and socially than their parents. The promotional materials of the website and prospectus emphasised the co-curricular involvement in music, speech and drama and invite parents into a discourse of success through the College's educational offering which creates 'extraordinary children'. The uniform mandated by the College is another 'text' in the production of extraordinary children as outlined in the prospectus and website and is an important site for identity production. The uniform demonstrates, not only the disciplinary regime and preparation for professional dress, but also the prestige and esteem derived from the consumption of high status products such as non-government schooling. It is expected that the findings of this study will have relevance for government schools that are the primary competition for new, non-government schools and will lose funding if they continue to lose students. The study will have some implications for CEO (Catholic Education Office) schools that have traditionally provided a low-cost alternative to the government sector. Parents in the study reported choosing the new, non-government school because of differences in values, and perceptions of safety and status improvement offered by these schools. The continued success of the new, non-government schools is also likely to have broader effects on social and educational inequality in Australia through their effects on the government school sector.