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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477527
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The effects of procedures on decision making : experimental evidence
Mertins, Vanessa - 2009
There is substantial empirical evidence and increasing recognition that not only outcomes, but also the procedures leading to them, can affect people' s utility from, and their reactions to, those decisions. However, there is still a large gap between numerous studies by non-economists (e.g.,...
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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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Housing purchases and the dynamics of housing wealth
Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia - 2010
En este trabajo se modelizan las decisiones de compra de vivienda principal y secundaria por parte de los hogares españoles utilizando la muestra panel proveniente de las dos primeras olas de la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Se estiman modelos de tasas de compra utilizando...
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Dynamic decision making and race games
De, Shipra - 2011
Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...
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Die Diffusion von nachhaltigem Konsum
Franke, Max - 2004
tieferliegenden Ursachen für die langsame Diffusion von nachhaltigem Konsum sind das Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit. Um die … ökologischen oder sozialen Folgen sind konsuminduziert und insofern ist der Konsum das zentrale Handlungsfeld einer nachhaltigen … Entwicklung beitragen. Aus diesem Grund untersucht diese Arbeit primär die Verbreitung von nachhaltigem Konsum. Besondere …
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Lump Sum versus Annuity: Choices of Kentucky Farmers during the Tobacco Buyout Program
Pushkarskaya, Helen N.; Marshall, Maria I. - 2009
Our study uses the data collected during the implementation of the tobacco buyout program inKentucky to evaluate how rural households, diverse in income, age, family structure, location,education level, and other characteristics, made a choice between annuities and a lump-sumpayment. Subjects in...
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Empirical estimation of consistency parameter in intertemporal choice based on Tsallis’ statistics
Takahashi, Taiki; Oono, Hidemi; Radford, Mark H. B. - 2007
Impulsivity and inconsistency in intertemporal choice have been attracting attention in econophysics and neuroeconomics. Although loss of self-control by substance abusers is strongly related to their inconsistency in intertemporal choice, researchers in neuroeconomics and psychopharmacology...
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Financing Public Sector Projects with Clean Renewable Energy Bonds; Fact Sheet Series on Financing Renewable Energy Projects, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Kreycik, C.; Couglin, J. - 2010
Clean renewable energy bonds (CREBs) present a low-cost opportunity for public entities to issue bonds to finance renewable energy projects. The federal government lowers the cost of debt by providing a tax credit to the bondholder in lieu of interest payments from the issuer. Because CREBs are...
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