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Since the 1980's the phenomenon of potential climate change or 'global warming' has been one of the predominant topics in environmental economics. Uncertainty is one of the main characteristics of climate change since many important scientific relationships are not yet well enough understood....
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …
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Online Consumer-to-Consumer Communication Networks are characterized by informational and social benefits as well as time and effort costs for participants. Therefore, this dissertation takes an economic perspective on the network formation process as a determinant of value for consumers and...
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electricity exchanges. In this thesis, a new model based on game theory approaches is developed for the European electricity …
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Diese Doktorarbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten, die in der Zeit von Oktober 2004 bis Oktober 2007 geschrieben wurden, während ich Teilnehmer am "Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance" an der Universität Konstanz war. Meine Forschungsinteressen...
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know who generatesinformation (and with which incentives), how that information isdisseminated in capital markets and …
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current world trade negotiating round.The current thesis uses a network formation approach to analyze the incentives to …
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networks change when agents follow incentives for profitable network positions? This question serves as a leitmotif for this … incentives that drive network formation. Typically, there are two kinds of aspects which play a major role: One is the gain of … structures in a scenario with either betweenness or closeness incentives and a scenario in which closeness and betweenness …
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with economic incentives as generated by the market system and requires changes in the market institutions to implement … problem is consistent with the underlying economic order (market system), if economic incentives to solve the problem exist … collective action are not pecuniary, this implies that the activity is not consistent with market incentives and therefore …
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