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A time varying coefficient model for panel data: Foreign Direct Investment in European OECD countries
(2007-04)
The present article reexamines some of the issues regarding the Knowledge-Capital Model that encompasses both horizontal and vertical Foreign Direct Investment described in detail in the literature. The empirical support ...
Landscape valuation through discrete choice experiments: Current practice and future research reflections
(2012)
The Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are a fast growing landscape valuation technique. This paper describes some recent applications implemented in this field and
identifies their attributes, levels, payment vehicles, ...
Índices de Satisfacción del Consumidor: una aplicación de Modelos de Ecuaciones Estructurales a la Industria Automovilística Española
(2002-10)
El objetivo del presente trabajo es la obtención de la variable latente Satisfacción Global del Consumidor (SGC), a partir de 25 indicadores proporcionados por la revista Autopista para 130 modelos de coches. La metodología ...
Choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to improve
(2009-06)
Modern forms of energy are an important vehicle towards poverty alleviation in rural areas of developing countries. Most developing countries’ households heavily rely on wood fuel which impact their health and social–economic ...
The influence of cultural identity on the WTP to protect natural resources: some empirical evidence
(2008)
This paper shows that cultural identity may have considerable influence on the WTP to protect natural resources. The Basque Country, the region with the highest ethnic homogeneity in Europe, serves as an example to illustrate ...
The management of Natura 2000 Network sites: a discrete choice experiment approach
(2011)
One of the main problems that public institutions face in the management of protected areas, such as the European Natura 2000 network, is how to design and implement sustainable management plans accounting both for the ...
Selecting random parameters in discrete choice experiment for environmental valuation: A simulation experiment
(2010)
This paper examines the various tests commonly used to select random parameters in choice modelling. The most common procedures for selecting random parameters are: the Lagrange Multiplier test as proposed by McFadden and ...
Spanish Customer Satisfaction Indices by Cumulative Panel Data
(2003-07)
In this paper, we present a new theoretical representation of the Consumer Satisfaction Index (CSI) based on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). We use panel data collected by an automotive magazine to apply our approach ...
Benchmarking of patents: An application of GAM methodology
(2007-04)
The present article reexamines some of the issues regarding the benchmarking of patents using the NBER data base on U.S. patents by generalizing a parametric citation model and by estimating it using GAM methodology. The ...
Comparing the performance of different approaches to deal with attribute non-attendance in discrete choice experiments: a simulation experiment
(2010)
There is a growing body of literature acknowledging that respondents to DCE often use simplifying strategies, like ignoring one or several attributes to provide with their choices. Two main approaches have appeared to ...