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effects of adaptation. A conjoint analysis experiment is used that examines the ex-ante contract preferences of a unique …
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The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
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The great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake, which occurred in 1995, resulted in tremendous economic damage to the city of Kobe. Using individual-level data of Japan during the period 2000–08, I investigated the long-term impact of the earthquake on the happiness of surviving victims. After...
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hedonic adaptation to income? It is argued that Islamic economics should predict a non-existence of hedonic adaptation to …. Testing the existence of hedonic adaptation to income is, therefore, an indirect way to assess whether a society pursing a … of Allah (zikr) to highlight possibility of sustain happiness without adaptation to income in the light of Islamic …
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This investigation employs dynamic panel analysis to provide new insights into the phenomenon of adaptation. Using the …
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that trust may determine a reduction of ex post transaction cost in the adaptation of hybrid structure. As a consequence … case study which illustrates the emerging of conditional trust (Fritz et al., 2008) and the role of trust in the adaptation …
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This article discusses the prospects and problems facing Italian small and medium sized enterprises that have recently engaged in direct investment through the establishment of production facilities in China and India. Using data gathered from 15 interviews conducted in those countries in 2009,...
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product strategies on global market are described, among them: standardization, adaptation and diversification. Premises and … conditions for product standardization as well as determiners of standardization and adaptation are quoted. Many examples of …
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consistent with hedonic adaptation and show that the factors that make people happier can change dramatically over a relatively …
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The aim of this paper is to gain insights from studying adaptation to natural disasters in the past in order to analyze … optimal adaptation in Switzerland in the future. Most adaptation measures already undertaken in Switzerland are so … measures to combat market damages in an ecient way. We come up with modeling adaptation as a cumulative stock in a computable …
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