Diese Dissertation untersucht die Regulierung von Krankenversicherungsmärkten und dabei insbesondere Risikoausgleichssysteme (wie z.B. den deutschen Risikostrukturausgleich), die dazu dienen, Risikoselektion durch Krankenversicherungen zu reduzieren oder gar zu verhindern. Im 2. Kapitel der...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Untersuchung der Bedeutung der Spezifikation für Ratingmodelle zur Prognose von Kreditausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten. Ausgehend von dem in der Bankenpraxis etablierten Logit-Modell werden verschiedene Modellerweiterungen diskutiert und hinsichtlich ihrer Eigenschaften...

This research is aimed at investigating the consumer’s preference for food produced in Taiwan and the economic benefits for the country of origin labeling. The study uses both experimental auction and contingent valuation method (CVM) to investigate factors that affect the consumer’s...

agricultural producer organisations

The recent transformation in milk production was characterized by the reduction of the prices received by the producer and by theincrease of the production and productivity. Facing this reality, this work has the objective to identify whether the option forinformal commercialization of the milk...

The World Health Organization has stated that obesity is spreading around the world like a “global epidemic”. In 2004 the percentage of obese people in the Italian population was 9%, but the trend s increasing in recent years. Focusing on this country, the purpose of the paper is to analyze...

Este trabalho realiza uma análise dos principais entraves à expansão das exportações na fruticultura irrigada do Pólo Petrolina-Juazeiro e propor políticas microeconômicas que viabilizem o desenvolvimento da atividade. A região apresenta excelentes condições de clima e solo para...

The objective of this work was to study the consumer habits of street market customers in the municipality of Alfenas, Minas Gerais state.More specifically, the aim was to characterize the customers according to their social and economic status and purchasing habits and toidentify the variables...

We examine the failure determinants for large quoted UK industrials using a panel data setcomprising 539 firms observed over the period 1988-93. The empirical design employs datafrom company accounts and is based on Chamberlain’s conditional binomial logit model,which allows for unobservable,...