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Policy Instruments for Evolution of Bounded Rationality: Application to Climate-Energy Problems
Nannen, Volker; den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We demonstrate how an evolutionary agent-based model can be used to evaluate climate policies that take the heterogeneity of strategies of individual agents into account. An essential feature of the model is that the fitness of an economic strategy is determined by the relative welfare of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616685
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Evolutionary Analysis of Climate Policy and Renewable Energy: Heterogeneous Agents, Relative Welfare and Social Network
Nannen, Volker; den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We demonstrate how an evolutionary agent-based model can be used to evaluate climate policies that take the heterogeneity of strategies of individual agents into account. An essential feature of the model is that the fitness of an economic strategy is determined by the relative welfare of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111539
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"An Agent Based Cournot Simulation with Innovation: Identifying the Determinants of Market Concentration"
Kochanski, Tim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, I develop a hybrid model that contains elements of both agent based simulations (ABS) as well as analytic Cournot models, to study the effects of firm characteristics, market characteristics, and innovation on market concentration, as measured by a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029696
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An Assessment of the Italian 2007 Second Pillar Reform: a simulation approach
Corsini, Lorenzo; Pacini, Pier Mario; Spataro, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
switching between these pension schemes and we then perform an agent-based simulation taking into account all the details of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683285
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Belief merging and revision under social influence: An explanation for the volatility clustering puzzle
Siddiqi, Hammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
A share price in a stock market can be thought of as arising out of an aggregation procedure. The price of a stock aggregates many individual beliefs into a collective one, the collective will of the market, so to speak. How does this aggregation come about? And is this aggregation fair in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789218
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Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach
Ferrera, Cordero; Manuel, Jose; Alonso Morán, Edurne; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper uses a fully nonparametric approach to estimate efficiency measures for primary care units incorporating the effect of (exogenous) environmental factors. This methodology allows us to account for different types of variables (continuous and discrete) describing the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114105
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Smoking behavior in Vietnam: demographic and socioeconomic determinants
cuong, nguyen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for … policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals …’ characteristics can affect the smoking status using a household survey in Vietnam. It is found that gender and age are the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647446
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Maternal prenatal substance use and behavior problems among children in the U.S.
Sen, Bisakha; Swaminathan, Shailender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … are used to minimize bias from confounding factors. Our results suggest that the relationship between prenatal smoking and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490101
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ICT Standardization and use of ICT standards: a firm level analysis
Riillo, Cesare Fabio Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Standards perform some fundamental economic functions and their relevance for ICT is acknowledged by firms, researchers and policy-makers. This paper investigates the driving forces of formal ICT standards setting (i.e. standardization). Previous quantitative studies have neglected that ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272689
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Peer Effects and Students’ Self-Control
Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and self-control among undergraduate students. We use a behavioral measure of self-control based on whether students achieve study related goals they have set for themselves. We find that both self-control and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259285