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design and implementation characteristics such as the use of financial incentives, deception, and the way information is … does not make sense to report experimental results without reporting the design and implementation choices that were made …. -- Duhem-Quine problem ; experimental design ; experimental implementation ; financial incentives ; deception …
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. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …
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We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...
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Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...
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This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …
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This paper explores some cooperative aspects of investments in uncertain, real options. Key production factors are assumed transferable. They may reflect property or user rights. Emission of pollutants and harvest of renewable resources are cases in point. Of particular interest are alternative...
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business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …
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significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …
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We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …
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