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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty
Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010
Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...
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Der Einfluss von Steuern auf Investitions- und Arbeitsangebotsentscheidungen - Experimentelle Analysen zur Wahrnehmung der Steuerbelastung
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen untersucht mit Hilfe verschiedener theoretischer Modelle, inwiefern Steuern Einfluss auf wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen haben. Eine grundlegende Annahme in diesen Modellen ist dabei die Abwesenheit von Fehlwahrnehmungen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, systematische...
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Betting on Global Warming : The Impact of Insurance Instruments on Mitigation of Climate Change
Klimpel, Susanne - 2001
response could be taken, as for example mitigation and insurance. This doctoral thesis focuses on the relation between the … insurance and the mitigation approach. It studies the impact of insurance instruments on mitigation of climate change. The main …
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Incentives and Privacy of Modern Monitoring Technologies: the Example of Automobile Insurance Contracts
Filipova-Neumann, Lilia - 2008
allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …
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Flexible Planung mit DecisionPro
Grob, Heinz Lothar; Schultz, Martin B. - 2004
Arbeitsbericht Nr. 14 aus der Reihe "Computergestütztes Controlling" …
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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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Impact of the allowance allocation on prices and efficiency
Neuhoff, Karsten; Grubb, Michael; Keats, Kim - 2005
Successful cap and trade programs for SO2 and NOx in the US allocate allowances to large emitters based on a historic base line for a period of up to thirty years. National Allocation Plans in Europe allocate CO2 allowances in an iterative approach first for a three then for a five-year period....
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Microeconomic foundation of investment decisions for electronic security trading systems
Li, Xihao - 2010
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Investment Reluctance: Irreversibility or Imperfect Capital Markets? Evidence from German Farm Panel Data
Huettel, Silke; Musshoff, Oliver; Odening, Martin - 2007
Investment behavior at the firm level is characterized by lumpy adjustments and frequent periods of inactivity. Low investment rates are particularly puzzling in transition economies where an urgent need of modernization exists. The literature offers two explanations for. Firstly,...
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