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From Periphery to Centre.The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe
Şipoş, Sorin; Moisa, Gabriel; Cepraga, Dan Octavian; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented … distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and … propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108818
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Genetically modified organisms in agriculture: social and economic implications
Davies, Ben; Richards, Caspian; Spash, Clive L.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260900
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The Relationship between Common Management and Ecotourism Development: Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons? A Law and Economics Answer
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839481
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Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization
Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020501
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Structure, agency and change in the car regime: A review of the literature
Marletto, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is aimed at filling the gap between the already well structured literature on the 'car regime' and the … of the car regime: 1) the car regime was established thanks to the ability of purposeful private actors to use the …-dependence phenomena lock the society into the car regime. For the future, the dominant scenario appears to be the internal transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151288
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Endogenous growth, decline in social capital and expansion of market activities
Bartolini, Stefano; Bonatti, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We model in an endogenous growth set-up the hypotheses that the expansion of market activities weakens social capital formation, and that firms can invest in formal mechanisms of control and enforcement to substitute for social capital (trust, work ethics, honesty). The model shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835993
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Economic Globalization, Marketization Reform and Economic Development in China
Yuan, Yanhui; Zhou, Xiaojuan; Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
discusses the interaction among economic globalization, economic development, and marketization reform in China, so as to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114365
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The irresistible charm of the Microfoundations, or the overwhelming force of the discipline's Hard Core?
Skouras, Thanos; Kitromilides, Yiannis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The appeal of the microfoundations project in economics is strongly supported by the considerable force of the discipline's "hard core" (in Lakatos' sense). This is especially the case, if the microfoundations metaphor is seen as a way of giving precedence to microeconomics in unifying economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260261
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Spending flexibility and safe withdrawal rates
Finke, Michael; Pfau, Wade Donald; Williams, Duncan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Shortfall risk retirement income analyses offer little insight into how much risk is optimal, and how risk tolerance affects retirement income decisions. This study models retirement income risk in a manner consistent with risk tolerance in portfolio selection in order to estimate optimal asset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359928
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Optimal Portfolio Liquidation for CARA Investors
Schied, Alexander; Schöneborn, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We consider the finite-time optimal portfolio liquidation problem for a von Neumann-Morgenstern investor with constant absolute risk aversion (CARA). As underlying market impact model, we use the continuous-time liquidity model of Almgren and Chriss (2000). We show that the expected utility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835745