A dynamic discrete time model is estimated in order to analyze the evolution of perceived risk around a hazardous waste site and its effect on property values. Residential property values are modeled as a function of housing attributes and perceived risk to health from a nearby hazardous waste site using an hedonic price framework. Perceived risk enters the model as a state equation, which incl...

Ben Hayes, Academic and Professional Tutor, Educational Psychology Group, University College London and Kent Educational Psychology Service; Leanna Lopez, Educational Psychologist, Tower Hamlets Psychology Service, London; Abigail Price, Consultant Paediatrician, Children’s Diabetes Team, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust. Personal resilience was studied in relation to perceived s...

The perceptions of farmers about risks in production of fruits and vegetables have been analysed using structured survey method. The study is based on the survey of a total of 634 farmers, comprising 188 fruit farmers and 446 vegetable farmers, covering six districts of Uttar Pradesh, namely, Lucknow, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, Jhansi and Agra. The perceived priorities of farmers about ma...

ions. They also presume that consumers carefully calculate the give and get components of value, an assumption that did not hold true for most consumers in the exploratory study. Price as a Quality Indicator Most experimental studies related to quality have focused on price as the key extrinsic quality signal. As suggested in the propositions, price is but one of several potentially useful extr...

Introduction The prestige of book publishers is an important element for the assessment of SSH scholars in Spain. Until 2012, that ‘prestige’ remained based upon subjective, individual judgements from assessment committees’ members. In order to provide a more objective reference for the prestige of book publishers, ÍLIA research group developed a ranking of book publishers (so called SPI) based...

abstract awareness of consumer reasons during nutrition choice is very important, because this decision directly affect their health. since beef is one of the essential goods in consumer basket of goods of iranian households, exploring of factors that influence consumers purchase decisions and intentions toward imported frozen beefs in east azerbaijan province – tabriz city is the purpose of th...

This paper examines the competitiveness of winner-take-all price competition in homogeneous product oligopoly environments where underlying buyer demands and/or firms’ costs need not be continuous. Our analysis is motivated by the observation that a variety of economic settings have these features. For example, in 1996 an Ivy League university solicited bids from several vendors for its initiat...