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Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency to compare one's own opinions and abilities with those of other people, raising the question of whether social comparisons are psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument, the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM), that measures ...
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Social Indicators Research
115 (2014), 2, S. 767-789
| Simone M. Schneider, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper analyses the relationship between traffic volume and maintenance costs, and derives estimates for the cost elasticity and the marginal maintenance cost for pricing decisions. Two types of multi-output cost functions were estimated: a translog form and a hybrid form with output variables transformed by Box–Cox metrics. The hybrid model performs statistically better and is the preferable model ...
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
48 (2014), 1, S. 15-33
| Heike Link
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The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crisis is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the political agenda in Germany. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and estimate the net wealth distribution ...
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Fiscal Studies
35 (2014), 1, S. 67-89
| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
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It is well-known that not all the variables affecting decisions in a discrete choice situation are objective characteristics of the alternatives. Some of them are associated with difficult to measure attributes which may be represented as latent variables. Since this type of variables cannot be directly observed by the analyst, they must be estimated through a special model (typically a MIMIC model), ...
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Transportmetrica A
10 (2014), No. 1, S. 74-88
| Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Juan de Dios Ortúzar
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We investigated age differences in associations among self-reported experiences of tense and energetic arousal, physiological activation indicated by heart rate, and working-memory performance in everyday life. The sample comprised 92 participants aged 14–83 years. Data were collected for 24 hr while participants pursued their normal daily routines. Participants wore an ambulatory biomonitoring system ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 1, S.103-114
| Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus, Kathrin Klipker, Viktor Müller, Florian Schmiedek, Gert G. Wagner
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The simultaneous estimation method has overtaken the sequential approach as the preferred estimation method for hybrid discrete choice models. Notwithstanding, the computational cost of the simultaneous estimation can be prohibitive when models become more involved, and in such cases sequential estimation can still be a potent option. In previous work a theoretical analysis was conducted that led to ...
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Transportation Research Record
2429 (2014), 1, S. 51-58
| Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Juan de Dios Ortúzar
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A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" not only reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurship, but may also lead to higher interest rates charged by creditors. Both effects are less relevant for wealthy potential entrepreneurs. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany ...
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American Law and Economics Review
16 (2014), 1, S. 269-312
| Frank M. Fossen
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There is a contentious debate about the exclusionary effects of upfront payments to be made by manufacturers to place their products on retailers' shelves. Analyzing a two-stage bargaining process with one downstream retailer and a pool of upstream manufacturers, we find that upfront payments lead to a smaller assortment if the retailer's bargaining power is high enough and the suppliers' products ...
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Review of Industrial Organization
44 (2014), 1, S. 95-111
| Pio Baake, Vanessa von Schlippenbach
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This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature,our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data suggest that state-level hospitalization ...
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Health Policy
114 (2014), 1, S. 41-53
| Peter Eibich, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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We evaluate the informational content of ex post and ex ante predictors of periods of excess stock (market) valuation. For a cross-section comprising 10 OECD economies and a time span of at most 40 years, alternative binary chronologies of price bubble periods are determined. Using these chronologies as dependent processes and a set of macroeconomic and financial variables as explanatory variables, ...
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Journal of Forecasting
33 (2014), 1, S. 15-31
| Helmut Herwartz, Konstantin A. Kholodilin