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Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes : With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror
Grass, Dieter; Behrens, Doris; Caulkins, Jonathan P.; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520988
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Do Judges Hate Speculators?
Hornuf, Lars - 2019
Historically, people have often expressed negative feelings toward speculators, a sentiment that might have even been reinforced since the latest financial crisis, during which taxpayer money was warranted or spent to bail out reckless investors. In this paper, we conjecture that judges may also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892211
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Economics and Computation : An Introduction to Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Fair Division
Rothe, Jörg (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision … making from an economic and computational perspective. Part I introduces to algorithmic game theory, focusing on both … noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Part II introduces to computational social choice, focusing on both preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397920
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Harmonisierung des europäischen Bilanzrechts : Problembestimmung und konzeptionelle Würdigung
Najderek, Anne - 2010
Problemstellung -- Reglungswille und Form der Harmonisierung im europäischen Bilanzrichtlinienrecht -- Regelungswille und Form der Standardisierung im europäischen Bilanzrecht nach der IAS-Verordnung -- Würdigung des true and fair view als Grundlage der Vergleichbarkeit im europäischen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014425195
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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260383
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The Social Cost of Carbon and the Ramsey Rule
Withagen, Cees - 2019
The objective of this paper is to critically assess the use of simple rules for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that employ a rudimentary form of the Ramsey Rule. Two interrelated caveats apply. First, if climate change poses a serious problem, it is hard to justify an exogenous constant growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892228
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Welfare Losses of Road Congestion
Russo, Antonio - 2019
We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a road’s throughput). We show that the external cost – even when roads are not hypercongested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867018
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082790
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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022
Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In this paper, we examine how international trade regimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243087
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New Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policies and the Enlargement of the Eurozone
Fahrholz, Christian (contributor) - 2007
This work examines the political economy of exchange-rate policies in the eastward expansion of the eurozone. Analysis shows that prospective members of the EMU are likely to pass on some costs of convergence to the current EMU members. The mechanism is an altered exchange-rate policy that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520664