abstract the industrial dairy farms in iran are facing several economic problems and about six percent of these farms were shut down in fars province due to low profitability. despite such problems and availability of other enterprises in the region, farmers do not switch to other farm activities. in this context, the factors affecting acceptance of diversification options were investigated in ...

M supermarket firms choose to position themselves by offering either everyday low prices (EDLP) across several items or offering temporary price reductions (promotions) on a limited range of items. While this choice has been addressed from a theoretical perspective in both the marketing and economic literature, relatively little is known about how these decisions are made in practice, especiall...

Schelling (1978) suggested a simple binary choice model to explain the variation of corruption levels across societies. His basic idea was that expected profitability

We provide a simple necessary and suffi cient condition for when a multiproduct demand system can be generated from a discrete choice model with unit demands.

Understanding how users choose tags can help researchers better understand how tagging systems can be used and how to design better tagging systems for the future. We developed a simulation of del.icio.us, a popular social bookmarking tool, that allowed us to simulate users choosing tags using one of four possible strategies for tag choice found in the literature. We then compared the resulting...

While winner-take-all crowdsourcing contests are wide spread in practice, several researchers have observed that their social welfare can be poor due to effort exerted by contestants who are never rewarded. In this paper we study the problem of efficiency in winnertake-all crowdsourcing contests. Using a discrete choice model to capture contestants’ production qualities, we introduce a mechanis...

This paper argues that Levi’s account of preference reversals is only a limited success. Levisucceeds in showing that an agent acting in accord with his theory may exhibit reversals.Nevertheless, the specific account that Levi presents in order to accommodate the behaviorof experimental subjects appears to be disconfirmed by available evidence. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTEErik Angner i...

What are the determinants of consumer choice over payment mechanisms? The answer to this question is important for a variety of reasons. Every government has the responsibility of supporting an efficient and effective payment system. Doing so is an explicit mandate of the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States. In addition, nothing is more central to private sector commerce than collecting p...