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The European Commission is going to discuss a revision of Directive 2003/96/ EC, restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity. The first proposals include a new energy taxation system, where the current energy tax is divided into two components - an...
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bidder can more fully express his preferences. This is particular important when items are complements. In the experiment …. The design of the laboratory experiment is presented in the next section and the results are shown in the last section. …
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The paper focuses on a comparison of three different approaches that seek to explain the existence of public goods. First the mainstream Samuelson-Musgrave approach, based on the search for an objective nature of so-called pure public goods, is critically evaluated, especially with respect to...
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The Czech Council for R&D developed a new version of the Methodic for the Evaluation of R&D. In this paper, we discuss especially three criteria from this Methodic: - publications in impacted journals - publications in other scientific refereed journals - evaluation of publications with more...
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Almost all of us sometimes voluntarily give up some scarce resources to make someone else better. Not only the amount of resources used for such purposes, but also other wider concerns (implications for private and government sector) have drawn the attention of economists in recent decades. In...
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various groups of people who undertake the experiment. Our experiments try to (1) Evaluate real outcomes of model situations … economists behave more selfishly than any other group of people. We employed game theory and its fundamental models - Prisoner …
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The paper contains a descriptive analysis of selected interdisciplinary research methods developed for the study of complex socio-ecological systems (climate change problems in particular). Institutional analysis and participatory methods of social consensus are in the centre of the focus.
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This paper pits expected utility theory and cumulative prospect theory against each other as regards their descriptive … utility theory is not descriptively valid. The most promising alternative, cumulative prospect theory, is then presented in … evidence. It is pointed out that there are other empirical observations which cannot be explained by cumulative prospect theory …
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the basics of expected utility theory, the key pieces of evidence are described which showed that under certain … circumstances, this theory is not descriptively valid. The most promising alternative, cumulative prospect theory, is then presented … prospect theory either, so that a model which would explain all evidence on decisions under risk is still to be found. …
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