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  • Power Law Scaling in World Income Distribution 
    Di Guilmi Corrado; Gaffeo Edoardo; Gallegati Mauro (Vanberbilt University, 2003)
    We show that over the period 1960-1997, the range comprised between the 30th and the 85th percentiles of the world income distribution expressed in terms of GDP per capita invariably scales down as a Pareto distribution. ...
  • Preferences for cancer treatments: an overview of methods and applications in oncology 
    Blinman Prunella; King Madeleine; Norman Richard; Viney Rosalie; Stockler Martin (Oxford University Press, 2012)
    This review provides cancer clinicians and researchers with an overview of methods for assessing preferences, with examples and recommendations for their application in oncology. Decisions about cancer treatments involve ...
  • Preferences for new and existing contraceptive products 
    Fiebig Denzil; Knox Stephanie; Viney Rosalie; Haas Marion; Street Deborah (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2011)
    New contraceptive methods provide greater choice in terms of effectiveness, management of side-effects, convenience and frequency of administration and flexibility, but make the decisions about contraception more complex. ...
  • Preferences for support services among adolescents and young adults with cancer or a blood disorder: A discrete choice experiment 
    Goodall Stephen; King Madeleine; Ewing Jane; Smith Narelle; Kenny Patricia (Elsevier, 2012)
    Life-threatening illnesses in young people are traumatic for patients and their families. Support services can help patients and families deal with various non-medical impacts of diagnosis, disease and treatment. The aim ...
  • Preferred future phosphorus scenarios: a framework for meeting long-term phosphorus needs for global food demand 
    Cordell Dana; Neset Tina; White Stuart; Drangert Jan - Olof (IWA Publishing, 2009)
    This paper puts phosphorus recovery in a global sustainability context, with particular reference to future phosphate rock scarcity and global food security. While phosphorus fertilizers are essential for sustaining high ...
  • The price consideration model of brand choice 
    Ching Andrew; Erdem Tulin; Keane Michael (John Wiley and Sons, 2009)
    The workhorse brand choice models in marketing are the multinomial logit (MNL) and nested multinomial logit (NMNL). These models place strong restrictions on how brand share and purchase incidence price elasticities are ...
  • Price Discovery in the Australian Dollar Foreign Exchange Market 
    Batten Jonathan; Hogan Warren (Elsevier, 2003)
  • Prices, delay, and the dynamics of trade 
    Moreno D; Wooders John (Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2002)
    We characterize the dynamics of trading patterns and market composition when trade is bilateral, finding a trading pat trier is costly, prices arc determined by bargaining, and preferences are private information. We show ...
  • Pricing Accuracy, Liquidity And Trader Behavior With Closing Price Manipulation 
    Comerton-Forde C; Putnins Talis (Springer, 2011)
    We study the effects of closing price manipulation in an experimental market to evaluate the social harm caused by manipulation. We find that manipulators, given incentives similar to many actual manipulation cases, decrease ...
  • The Private Value of Public Pensions 
    Petrichev Konstantin; Thorp Susan (Elsevier, 2008)
    As individual retirement savings accounts replace public pensions and defined benefit schemes, more retirees will decumulate using commercial income streams rather than public or corporate annuities. Here we use an ...
  • The Probability and Timing of Price Revesals in the Propert Market 
    Stevenson, M. J; Partington, G. (Marcel Dekker Inc, 2003)
    In this paper, we develop models for estimating the time varying probability that there will be a price reversal in the property market. Knowledge of such price reversals may be helpful in forming property trading ...
  • Procurement, Innovation and Competitiveness in the Construction Industry 
    De Valence Gerard (Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research, 2007)
  • Productivity and industrial disputes: a note on the Cole Royal Commission 
    Perry Leonard (Elsevier, 2004)
    The Cole Royal Commission into the building and construction sector recommended radical 'reforms' in that sector's labour market. The Commission based its recommended changes on evidence of lacklustre productivity for ...
  • Prospective, randomised, double-blind trial investigating the effect of doxycycline on matrix metalloproteinase expression within atherosclerotic carotid plaques 
    Axisa A; Loftus Im; Naylor Ar; Goodall Stephen; Jones L; Bell P; Thompson Matt (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002)
    Background and Purpose¿Elevated levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), particularly MMP-1 and MMP-9, have been implicated in plaque rupture. It has been suggested that inhibition of MMPs may stabilize vulnerable ...
  • The Public Availability of Actions and Artefacts 
    Robertson Toni (Springer, 2002)
    This paper introduces and describes some concepts basic to a phenomenological understanding of human perception that is derived from the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty. His account of the lived experience of the embodied ...
  • Public investment and economic growth 
    Otto Glenn; Milbourne Ross; Voss Graham (SAGE Publications, 2007)
    This article uses an extension of Mankiw, Romer and Weil's augmented Solow- Swan growth model to examine whether public investment has a distinct role as a determinant of economic growth. It considers both the predictions ...
  • Quantile Regression Analysis of Body Mass and Wages 
    Johar Meliyanni; Katayama H (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2011)
    Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we explore the relationship between body mass and wages. We use quantile regression to provide a broad description of the relationship across the wage distribution. We ...
  • Quantile regression analysis of body mass on wages 
    Johar Meliyanni; Katayama H (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2012)
    Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we explore the relationship between body mass and wages. We use quantile regression to provide a broad description of the relationship across the wage distribution. We ...
  • Quasi-structural estimation of a model of childcare choices and child cognitive ability production 
    Bernal Raquel; Keane Michael (Elsevier, 2010)
    This article evaluates the effects of maternal vs. alternative care providers' time inputs on children's cogni- tive development using the sample of single mothers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. To deal with ...
  • Random Consumer Demand 
    Mccausland William (Blackwell, 2009)
    I present a theory of random consumer demand. The primitive is a collection of probability distributions on budgets. Axioms constrain these distributions, including analogues of preference axioms, such as transitivity, ...