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Bootstrap Markov chain Monte Carlo and optimal solutions for the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected)
Kochanski, Greg P; Rosner, Burton S. - 2010
sets simulated for Full Signal Detection Theory and its special cases of standard Signal Detection Theory and Complementary … Signal Detection Theory. …
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Risk Preferences Beyond Expected Utility Theory: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
R?ger, Maximilian - 2011
preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … utility theory are met. It is shown that the methodological concerns are empirically relevant when a classification of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482308
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The Flexibilisation of the Labour Market in EU
Leitmanová, Ivana - 2012
The flexibilisation of the markers of goods and services conduces to an existence of untypical forms of unemployment and labour contracts. The labour market responses on the low economic growth and uncertainty with the increasing number of part-time employment, lime-limited labour contract and...
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Three essays on skill-specific labor markets, inequality and consumption over the business cycle
Xie-Uebele, Runli - 2011
Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit Arbeitsmarkterfolg und Konsum sozioökonomischer Gruppen. Die ersten zwei Kapitel untersuchen konjunkturelle Auswirkungen auf Arbeitsmärkten für Hoch- und Niedrigqualifizierte. Zunächst wird ein qualifikationsspezifisches Konjunkturmodell mit Suchkosten...
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Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.
Pugatch, Todd M. - 2011
This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural...
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Corporate Governance von humankapitalintensiven Unternehmen
Weishaupt, Till - 2007
Hintergrund der Untersuchung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von Humankapital als wettbewerbsentscheidendem Produktionsfaktor in modernen humankapitalintensiven Unternehmungen. Es stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Bedeutungszunahme und der Regelung des „Primärhumankapitals“, also...
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Recent Applications of Economic Theory in Information Technology Research
Yannis, Bakos; Kemerer, C.F. - 1992
aspectsof economic theory in recent information systems research, leading toresults that have appeared in a wide variety of … theory are represented: information economics,production economics, economic models of organizational performance …,industrial organization, institutional economics (agency theory andtransaction cost theory), and macroeconomic studies of IT impact. Foreach …
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Financial reporting discretion and voluntary disclosure: corporate research and development expenditure in Australia
Percy, Majella - 2000
The aim of this paper is to explain Australian R&D capitalisation and voluntary disclosure. It is argued that the discretionary choices available to management in Australia with respect to the accounting for and the disclosure of R&D expenditure and activities can be explained by the reduction...
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Agency theory : an extended conceptualisation and reformation
Temel-Candemir, Nurcan - 2005
The theory of Agency, specifically that developed by Jesen and Meckling (1976), will be the subject of examination …. Agency theory has been the subject of extensive research since its introduction in modern form by Jensen and Meckling (1976 …). The generality of the theory of Agency appears unquestionable and it has been widely adopted. Surprisingly, however, the …
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