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Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being financially informed? This paper presents results of a field study linking individual decisions to...
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Das Bildungssystem erfährt aktuell eine Neuorientierung von ehemals ausschließlich inputorientierten Steuerungsgrößen hin zu outputorientierten Elementen der Qualitätssicherung in Schulen und Hochschulen. Ein zentrales Instrument in diesem Reformprozess sind Bildungsstandards. Im...
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In jüngster Zeit gewinnt die Diskussion um eine ökonomische Grundbildung als Teil von Allgemeinbildung an Dynamik. Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbände fordern gemeinsam ein eigenes Unterrichtsfach Wirtschaft. Bildungspolitiker plädieren für eine Anreicherung wirtschaftlicher Inhalte in...
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Auf einer funktionalen Definition von Bildung gründend setzt sich der Beitrag mit den Anforderungen auseinander, die die moderne Gesellschaft an die Gestaltung von (schulischen) Bildungsprozessen stellt. Dabei steht die Perspektive der Möglichkeit zur individuellen Wahrnehmung...
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The paper enquires into the relationship between economic inequality and economic growth, but different from others, it also studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth in the situation where consideration of effect of factor movement is included. The paper tends to answer...
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The Friedman rule, a widely studied prescription for monetary policy, is optimal inTownsend’s turnpike model of money; it is not so in the overlapping generations versionof his stochastic relocation model of money. We investigate these monetary models inthe light of this disparity. To that...
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Das Thema „Regionale Disparitäten“ hat derzeit Konjunktur in Japan. Deröffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunksender NHK begann im April 2007 mit einerlockeren Reihe von Fernsehdokumentationen unter dem ObertitelChiiki hatsu! Dō suru Nippon [Aus den Regionen! Japan, was tun?]. Gesendetetwa jeden...
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Since the early 1950s, the Japanese government has followed a paradigmof ‘balanced regional development’ that is based on comprehensive planning approachescharacterized by very high levels of central government control. However,the intended regional economic growth failed to occur and...
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Central banks typically find it difficult to turn off the "political pressure valve". This has important consequences for the types of monetary policies they implement. This paper presents an analysis of how political factors may come into play in the equilibrium determination of inflation. We...
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economicdevelopment has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. Whileclassical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for growth, theneoclassical paradigm dismissed the...
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