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Socio-economic criteria for climate projects have been used in analysing the value of the climate benefit of a reduction in CO2. These reports are optimistic, yet CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. Little attention has been devoted to profitability assessments based on...
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There is a planning gap for CCS projects in Europe. CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. This fact is at odds with optimistic valuation reports that apply socio-economic valuation criteria for climate projects. However, CCS plants are in most cases to be implemented by...
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. Second, even highly experienced decision-makers are more likely to make mistakes when choosing from sets with higher …
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to what a traditional rational optimizing agent would choose. This model is a first step to understand decision-making in …
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intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a … dimension for dishonest decision-making and for the cognition process of the chance to deceive. We conduct a laboratory … opportunity and the conscious decision to misreport, reveals that more reflection time increases awareness of the misreporting …
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.g. gender, race, sugar) have a stronger effect when the attribute is mixed with others, and so the decision becomes less …
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and decision time. Overall, the data show that more people follow the default if the nudge is made transparent. More … importantly, though, effects of transparency differ depending on whether people are fast or slow in their decision making. In … particular, (only) slow decision makers react more positively (keeping the default) if nudging is made transparent. Moreover, the …
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This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...
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Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to … healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public …
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We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...
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