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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2009

This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...

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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - CESifo - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments’ ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant...

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Innovation Strategies in a Competitive Dynamic Setting

Lukach, Ruslan; Plasmans, Joseph; Kort, Peter M. - CESifo - 2005

This paper presents a dynamic model of a competitive R&D and production duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers. Two … asymmetric firms operate for a limited period of time and dispose their knowledge capital in the end. Both firms and the social … planner prefer the R&D-cooperative strategy over the competitive one regardless of the intensity of knowledge spillovers …

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R&D and Production Behavior of Asymmetric Duopoly Subject to Knowledge Spillovers

Plasmans, Joseph - CESifo - 2000

We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model …

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The Optimal Climate Policy Portfolio when Knowledge Spills across Sectors

Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - CESifo - 2010

This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge … spillovers between the energy and the non-energy sector, we show that the combination between environmental and knowledge … internalisation of knowledge externalities. Moreover, we show that implementing technology policy as a substitute for stabilisation …

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