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Wir analysieren im Rahmen der neoklassischen Theorie die Rolle der Nutzendiskontierungsrate als Egoismus- bzw … intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die …
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is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. This paper analyzes how transfers among family members …. Parental and spousal transfers are motivated both by altruism and by a desire to use the transfers to impart specific values or … behaviors to the recipient. When altruistic transfers predominate and the altruism is not completely reciprocated by the …
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altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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across individuals. In the research reported here, we examine two models of heterogeneous utility, linear-altruism and …
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Die Arbeit untersucht und vergleicht die Wirkung von Mindest- und Kombilöhnen (Lohnkostenzuschüsse und Transferzahlungen an Arbeitnehmer) in einem Arbeitsmarktmodell mit monopsonistischer Konkurrenz und freiem Marktzutritt für Firmen. Es wird die Wirkung beider Instrumente auf die Nutzen der...
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den erwarteten Nutzen des Endverm?gens bei einer Nutzenfunktion mit konstanter relativer Risikoaversion. Das Endverm …
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The Commission on Graduate Education in Economics had raised several concerns regarding the role of mathematics in graduate training in economics (Krueger, 1991; Colander, 1998, 2005). This paper undertakes a detailed scrutiny of the notion of a utility function to motivate and describe the common...
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The paper deals with two specific types of utility functions displaying decision maker's risk aversion at expressing the utility of monetary values. These functions are following: w(c) = 1 – e-x/R, u(x) = ln(x + R), where x is a monetary value and R is a constant expressing the degree of risk...
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This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...
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occurred among these researchers: they promote the theory that human cooperative behavior evolved via selective processes which … theory, an impressive collection of cross-cultural data are presented which suggest that participants in experimental … group selection. In this review, problems with these data and with the theory are discussed. On the data side, it is argued …
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