bstract—Food intake is an essential human activity reguated by homeostatic and hedonic systems in the brain which as mostly been ignored by the cognitive neurosciences. Yet, he study of food intake integrates fundamental cognitive and motional processes in the human brain, and can in particuar provide evidence on the neural correlates of the hedonic xperience central to guiding behaviour. Neuro...

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of hedonic and matched model methods on historical data for electric motors in Sweden 1900–35. The resu...

100 words max): This article estimates the impact of the 2007-2008 residential housing market bust on farmland values, using parcel-level farmland sales data from 2001-2010 for a 50-county region under urbanization pressure in western Ohio. Hedonic model estimates reveal that farmland was not immune to the residential housing bust; the portion of farmland value attributable to proximity to urba...

This study uses a unique integration of geospatial and hedonic property data to estimate the impact of sea-level rise on coastal real estate in North Carolina. North Carolina’s coastal plain is one of several large terrestrial systems around the world threatened by rising sealevels. High-resolution topographic LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data are used to provide accurate inundation maps...

ONOMICS/FINANCE International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 2012, V Foreclosure The legal process by which an owner’s right to a property is terminated, usually due to default. Hedonic regression A method of estimating demand or value. It decomposes the price of a good or service into its constituent characteristics and obtains estimates of the contributory value of each characteristic. Sub...

Using urban residential micro data from CHNS, this paper employs Hedonic Pricing Model to investigate the impact of Neighborhood Quality on housing value and its mechanism. We find that, Human Capitals measured by average schooling years and occupational diversity have significant positive effect while cultural capitals such as Ethnic Diversity have significant negative effect on housing value....

Small scale internal consumer tests provide a company with a cheap way to get valuable information regarding their products advantages and flaws. Therefore the demand for possibilities to do this kind of test has increased. This report is part of a new sensory project at Unilever. It presents a method for sensory comparison of the company’s own products with the corresponding competitor product...

Two major goals of this paper were, first to examine the cross-cultural consistency of the factor structure of the Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities (HEMA) scale, and second to illustrate the advantages of using Bayesian estimation for such an examination. Bayesian estimation allows for more flexibility in model specification by making it possible to replace exact zero constraints (...