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Distorted Time Preferences and Structural Change in the Energy Industry : A Theoretical and Applied Environmental-Economic Analysis
Heinzel, Christoph; Feess, Eberhard; Hemmelskamp, Jens; … - 2009
This study contributes to the economic discounting debate by examining the welfare and policy implications of distorted time preferences for private investments. The analysis is applied to the energy industry, where it is of particular importance. In the transition to low-carbon energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521173
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Pensionomics : On the Role of PAYGO in Pension Portfolios
Jäkel, Matthias F. (contributor) - 2006
Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital. While this ideal form of diversification can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520560
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Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare : Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent
Binder, Constanze - 2015
Part I: Individual Choice and Rationality -- Part II: Collective Choice and Collective Rationality -- Part III: Social … of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics …, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019526
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Unternehmensreputation und Kaufverhalten : Methodische Aspekte komplexer Strukturmodelle
Eberl, Markus (contributor) - 2006
Motivation -- Reputation als unternehmerische Zielgröße -- Die Relevanz von Unternehmensreputation für unternehmerisches Handeln -- Konstruktspezifikation: Methodische Aspekte für die Anwendbarkeit der Strukturgleichungsanalyse -- Ein Untersuchungsdesign für die Kundenwirkung von...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013516612
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Cost-Minimizing Choice Behavior in Transportation Planning : A Theoretical Framework for Logit Models
Erlander, Sven B. - 2010
Logit Models for Spatial Interaction: Background -- COST-MINIMIZING BEHAVIOR - CONSTANT LINK COSTS -- Logit Models for Discrete Choice -- Some Particular Logit Models -- Welfare, Benefit and Freedom of Choice -- Graphical Tests of Cost-Minimizing Behavior in Logit Models -- Empirical and Policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013522790
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Homo Oeconomicus : The Economic Model of Behaviour and Its Applications in Economics and Other Social Sciences
Kirchgässner, Gebhard (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520968
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Rational Choice and Social Welfare : Theory and Applications Essays in Honor of Kotaro Suzumura
Salles, M.; Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Suzumura, K.; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521037
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Predictably Rational? : In Search of Defenses for Rational Behavior in Economics
McKenzie, Richard B. - 2010
Economists’ “Irrational Passion for Dispassionate Rationality” -- The Methodological Constraints on the Rationality … Premise -- Human Motivation and Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hands” -- Rationality in Economic Thought: From Thomas Robert Malthus … to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed -- Rationality in Economic Thought: Frank Knight, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521297
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Fundamental Uncertainty : Rationality and Plausible Reasoning
Brandolini, Silva Marzetti Dall’Aste (ed.);  … - 2011
This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053918
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Rethinking Rational Choice Theory : A Companion on Rational and Moral Action
Jonge, Jan de - 2012
The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053975