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- Make Customers Happy: Charge Them More
- Okay, I'm being puckish -- anyone in business knows that customers constantly argue for a better deal. But in at least some contexts, like buying wine, people feel better about what they buy if it costs more. That's the gist of what's called the price-placebo effect, reported...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect and What to Do about It
- One of the most stressful aspects of being promoted to management can be the responsibility of determining others' compensation. Why is that? You might call it inflated egos. Psychologists call it the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Business Pundit has a great post on the phenomenon this week. First, a definition of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Modeling Dynamic Effects of Promotion on Interpurchase Times
- This paper puts forward a duration model to analyze the dynamic effects of marketing-mix variables on inter-purchase times. It extends the accelerated failure-time model with an autoregressive structure. As marketing efforts usually change during the spells, it explicitly deals with time-varying covariates. The empirical analysis of purchases in three different...
- White papers 2002-10-07
- Modeling Dynamic Effects of the Marketing Mix on Market Shares
- To comprehend the competitive structure of a market, it is important to understand the short-run and long-run effects of the marketing mix on market shares. A useful model to link market shares with marketing-mix variables, like price and promotion, is the market share attraction model. This paper puts forward a...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- The Effect of Legal Environment on Auditors' Decisions to Accept Clients' Aggressive Reporting Methods
- This paper investigates the possible main effect of legal environment and explores the potential interactive effect of the legal environment on auditor-client relationships and client business risks when decisions are made about whether to accept clients' aggressive reporting methods. Sixty-three U.S. and eighty-four Hong Kong audit professionals from Big 4...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Once Again, Is Openness Good for Growth?
- This article argues that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity methodology to estimate the effect...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Acute Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Inflammation in Healthy Intermittent Smokers
- Chronic smoking is the main risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Knowledge on the response to the initial smoke exposures might enhance the understanding of changes due to chronic smoking, since repetitive acute smoke effects may cumulate and lead to irreversible lung damage. The paper investigates acute effects of...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Special Report on FASB ARB 51 Implications Across Structured and Corporate Finance Ratings
- The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential effects of the interpretation on many of the asset classes that carry a Fitch rating. It is important to note that this discussion is based on the existing document and does not factor in the effects that continued evolution of...
- White papers 2002-08-20
- Use of Preventive Services by Men Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans
- This paper examines the effect of demographic and socioeconomic factors on use of preventive services (prostate-specific antigen testing, colorectal cancer screening, and influenza vaccination) among elderly men enrolled in 2 Medicare + Choice health plans. Data were derived from administrative files and a survey of 1915 male enrollees. It uses...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Impact of Gambling: Economic Effects More Measurable Than Social Effects
- NGISC and its contractors reported that legalized gambling, especially in casinos, has resulted in an increased number of jobs in communities and decreased the unemployment rate and unemployment insurance payments. The social effects of gambling on communities are more difficult to measure than the economic effects, primarily because of limited...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Potential Effect of Offshore Wind Developments on Coastal Processes
- The overall aim of this paper is to identify, review and assess the potential effect on coastal processes related to the development of offshore wind farms around the UK coast. Within the context of this paper coastal processes are deemed to include the diffraction and focusing effects on waves and...
- White papers 2002-11-19
- The Decline in Household Saving and the Wealth Effect
- Using a unique set of household level panel data, the paper estimates the effect of capital gains on saving by asset type, controlling for observable and unobservable household specific fixed effects. The results suggest that the decline in the personal saving rate since 1984 is largely due to the significant...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- First Sun Case Study: Polhemus' Handheld 3D Laser Scanner Is Used to Create Digital Images for Character Animation in Movies
- First Sun is an associated company of The Gibson Group, which is recognized as one of New Zealand's leading independent film and television production companies. The challenge for First Sun when working on Demons was the daunting task of developing special effects on a budget that was considered very limited...
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- The Effect of the Northeast Dairy Compact on Producers and Consumers, With Implications of Compact Contagion
- This paper lays out in an explicit and consistent framework the quantitative market-level effects of the Northeast Compact on producers and consumers in New England. Unlike previous studies, this model milk supply and demand to which FMMO and Compact regulations are applied, and simulate counter-factual scenarios against which we measure...
- White papers 2003-04-30
- The Reaction Of Multifamily Capitalization Rates To Natural Disasters
- Paper contains the study to analyze the effect of the Northridge Earthquake on capitalization rates in the multifamily building market in Los Angeles, California. The results indicate that the Northridge Earthquake had a negative impact and overall capitalization rates rose. This negative effect, however, was not uniform over the entire...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Modeling Potentially Time - Varying Effects of Promotions on Sales
- It is seen that in practical cases the effects of promotion are not constant over time. Therefore, this paper proposes a new and rather parsimonious econometric model for the purpose of measuring the effects of promotions, while allowing for time-variation in these effects. This paper discusses representation and interpretation of...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- International Strategic Alliances: Stock Market Responses From Dutch Firms Partnering With EU, US and Japanese Firms
- This paper examines the effect on the market valuation of large Dutch firms following the announcement of forming international strategic alliances ISAs. These stock market effects are distinguished by type of alliance and country of origin of the partnering firms during the period 1985-1992. While ISAs are generally found to...
- White papers 2003-02-21
- The Chemistry Of Special Effects In The Film Industry
- When talking of special effects in films, certain blockbusters come to mind. Films like Titanic, and The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and Spider-Man trilogies have been lauded for their effects. Although some of these effects are traditional, when looking at science fiction and action films released in the past...
- White papers 2007-05-09
- Positive Effects Of Prohibition On Our Food Industry
- When Prohibition went into effect in America, many years back, it did, what it was supposed to, which was it stopped the illegal sale of alcohol, but it also has this wonderful effect on the economy. In addition, some of these effects from Prohibition are still there. Because there was...
- White papers 2008-03-31
- Evaluating The Causal Effects Of Foreign Acquisition On Domestic Skilled And Unskilled Wages
- This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target's development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined with a difference-in-differences estimator, and differences in...
- White papers 2003-10-26
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