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There is not much research on welfare-economics from the perspective of human wellbeing (happiness). The main reason is that this is qualitative and subjective phenomena are not easily captured by measurement. In the present endeavour, the authors tried to capture it (happiness) from the...
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. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …
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-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …
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, mit der Teilhabe Indiens an der Globalisierung. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die Reformpolitik der letzten zehn Jahre trägt … Indian participation in the globalization. He assesses that the reforms in India lead to economic and social process of …
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analyzing the nexus labour standards - labour market outcomes - globalization. The first part, Chapter 2, is a theoretical … analysis of the effects of globalization on the equilibrium labour market policy, employment and wages. The policy instrument … considered is a minimum wage set by the government and influenced by two lobby groups. Globalization is modelled as an increase …
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labor in open economies is that even if international child labor standards do improve world welfare, trade policies will …
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The merger wave that took place during the first phase of globalization, which lasted from 1895 to 1914, changed the … successful during this period. Noteworthy, studies that evaluate the success of mergers during the first phase of globalization … superior economic development in the pre-World-War I period. After reviewing new statistical material, however, the picture has …
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Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...
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The concept of trade openness is broadly applied as a potential predictor in numerous empirical studies, despite the fact that no commonly accepted approach of measuring openness has been developed. The most widely applied (‘traditional’) openness indices are not able to accurately calculate...
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