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Public Ignorance and Estate Tax Repeal: The Effect of Partisan Differences and Survey Incentives

Krupnikov, Yanna; Levine, Adam S.; Lupia, Arthur; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

We re-examine whether the broad support for repeal of the estate tax is a result of citizen ignorance. We find that increasing information about the estate tax or politics in general has very different effects on Republicans and Democrats. While high and low-information Republicans support...

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Beware of feedback effects among trust, risk and public opinion: Quantitative estimates of rational versus emotional influences on attitudes toward genetic modification

Kelley, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Support for genetic modification in agriculture mainly stems from approval of food and agricultural goals. It is facilitated by trust in the judgment of scientific authorities and undermined by anxiety about the risks involved. But there are symptoms of danger: Any public opinion data that show...

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What is a Workers’ Referendum for? Evidence from Italy

Carbonai, Davide; Drago, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In July 2007, the Prodi government and representatives of the three main Italian trade union confederations signed a landmark agreement on welfare and economic development. In October, in order to ratify or reject the agreement, the Italian labor movement organized a referendum, i.e. the...

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When Category-based Indices Encounter Non-independent Categories: Solving the Taxonomy Issue in Resource-based Empirical Studies

Huo, Dong; Motohashi, Kazuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

solution framework. In addition, this study thoroughly examines validity such as content validity, convergent validity …, discriminant validity, internal consistency, and criterion-related validity. The results reveal that this approach performs as …

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The value of travel time variance

Fosgerau, Mogens; Engelson, Leonid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper considers the value of travel time variability under scheduling preferences that are de�fined in terms of linearly time-varying utility rates associated with being at the origin and at the destination. The main result is a simple expression for the value of travel time variability...

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Decision Making Tool in Aviation Industry Considering Safety and Technologies Integration

Sambracos, Evangelos; Katarelos, Eleftherios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Safety, fast and regularity were and continue to be the Civil Aviation’s objectives; their order invariably defines their importance. This means civil aviation firstly strives safety and after, all other objectives follow. Thus, as industry advanced toward the attainment of safety by means of...

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Loss of Load Probability of a Power System

Pillai N, Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

expected to supply electrical energy as economically as possible, and with a high degree of quality and reliability. The … developed countries in general place higher reliability standards on the performance of electricity supply. However, there has … been no significant study in the context of the Indian power sector to analyze reliability in terms of loss of load …

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In Quest of the Distributional Properties of Reliability Rate

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Reliability in its broad sense refers to the probability that a component or system is able to perform its intended … time the unit/system is available for operation. For practical purposes, reliability rate is estimated using maximum …

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The value of reliability

Fosgerau, Mogens; Karlström, Anders - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We derive the value of reliability in the scheduling of an activity of random duration, such as travel under congested …

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Congestion costs in bottleneck equilibrium with stochastic capacity and demand

Fosgerau, Mogens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

I analyse congestion costs in the Vickrey bottleneck model of a congestible facility with a peak load in demand. The shape of the peak is endogenous, being the sum of individual scheduling decisions. Capacity and demand are random, which introduces uncertainty into the individual scheduling...

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