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Funktioniert fairer Handel? - Ökonomische Überlegungen zum alternativen Handel mit Kaffee
Steinrücken, Torsten - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Ilmenau>
In the last years more and more consumers evince increasing interest in fair traded products. This trade conceptis designed to help mainly producers of agricultural products to keep some basic social producing criteria. Thedifferent Fair-Trade-Organisations try to implement better work- and life...
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“Consolidation of Ownership and Market Consolidation:The Role of Relational Investors on the Polish Beer Market1990 –1999”
Górzyński, Michal - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002
This paper presents a case study based on a full dataset related to 31 companies operating in thePolish beer industry during the 1990’s. It discusses the impact of privatisation and of secondaryownership transfers on market outcomes. It confirms the critical role played by foreign...
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Die Privatisierung der öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltung am Beispiel Australiens
Bruttel, Oliver - 2002
Australien dar. Außerdem wird eine erste Analyse der Erfahrungen vor dem theoretischenHintergrund der Neuen Institutionenökonomik …
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The Trade and Welfare Impact of AustralianQuarantine Policies: The Case of Pigmeat
Beghin, John C.; Melatos, Mark - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
, we account for changes to Australia’s pigmeat quarantinepolicy over time including those changes related to the recent … resolution of a WTO disputebetween Australia and the European Union. Using a random utility model, and applying it tocorner … regimes implemented by Australia during the period 1988-2009. The welfare impact on consumers, producers, and foreign …
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Economic Integration and the Foreign Exchange
Weber, Enzo - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007
-round integration of two economies. Empirically, such a constellation is found between Australia and New Zealand, whereas diverging … trends in money and interest rates characterise the relation of Australia towards the US. …
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Selling Reputation When Going out of Business
Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - 2004
Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has toretire even though ownership change is observable? The authors of this paper consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms...
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Economic Benefit of Powerful Credit Scoring
Blöchlinger, Andreas; Leippold, Markus - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2005
In this paper, we study the economic benets from using credit scoring models. We contribute to the literature by relating the discriminatory power of a credit scoring model to the optimal credit decision. Given the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve of the credit scoring model, we...
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Dynamic utility indifference valuation via convex risk measures
Klöppel, Susanne; Schweizer, Martin - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2005
We study the dynamic utility indifference value process p(X) when the usefulness of X is evaluated via a dynamic monetary concave utility functional (DMCUF) instead of von Neumann/Morgenstern expected utility. A DMCUF is minus a dynamic convex risk measure. The key tools for our investigations...
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Regulated and Non-Regulated Companies, Technology Adoptionin Experimental Markets for Emission Permits, and OptionsContracts
Chesney, Marc; Taschini, Luca - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2011
This paper examines the investment strategies of regulated companies in abatement technologies,market participants' trading behaviors, and the liquidity level in an inter-temporalcap{and{trade market using laboratory experiments. The experimental analysis is performedunder varying market...
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Are Two Tax Rates Better than One?
FitzRoy, Felix; Jin, Jim Y. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? Weprovide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this resultclarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. Ifwe maximize total or...
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