The two primary approaches to estimate marginal willingness-to-pay (MWTP) are hedonic (Rosen, 1974) and discrete choice models (McFadden, 1974). This paper provides a tractable framework to investigate the relationship between MWTP in these models. By deriving the hedonic price gradient implicitly from the share function in the discrete choice model, I present an analytical mapping between the ...

This paper considers the problem of estimating a structural model of optimal life-cycle savings, controlling both for uncertainty about health-care expenditures and household risk aversion. To avoid misleading inference, we propose a new estimation technique that compared to those already proposed in the literature enables us to deal simultaneously with the presence of (i) unobserved cross-sect...

Available online 19 September 2012 JEL classification: C72 D72 D74

Background Allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a strategy used for treatment of different malignant diseases. However, success of allo-HSCT can be hampered by graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD). Natural killer (NK) cells may play an important role in activating antigen presenting cells and subsequent activation of T cells. The main purpose of this study was the evaluation ...

abstract the aim of this study is of the effect of structural changes in higher education on changes of output in sistan and baluchestan province using structural decomposition analysis (sda). the input-output tables of this region for the period 2006-2011 have been employed as the database of the model. the structural changes were decomposed into two factors: changes in share of specific secto...

abstract in this paper, income per capita convergence hypothesis is tested in selected oic countries. for this purpose, we use the time series model and univariate kpss stationary test with multiple structural breaks (carrion-i-silvestre et al. (2005)) over the period 1950-2008. the results show that most oic countries could not catch up toward usa. although because of some positive term of tra...

Article history: Received 29 March 2013 Available online 10 February 2014 JEL classification: C72 D83 D85

Article history: Received 30 November 2007 Available online 31 August 2011 JEL classification: D82 D83

Article history: Received 3 September 2010 Available online 21 June 2011 JEL classification: C72 D82