This paper aims at simulating optimal prices satisfying public health recommendations in terms of nutrient adequacy. This implies to estimatea complete food demand system in order to compute price elasticities. Food consumption behaviors are described by an AI functional form [Deaton and...

Durch die Festsetzung von Umweltqualitätsgrenzwerten werden vorgegebene Umweltqualitäts- oder Schutzziele operationalisiert. Im Operationalisierungsprozess (dem Grenzwertsetzungsprozess) sind jedoch Fehlentscheidungen aufgrund von Unsicherheiten in der Bewertung gegebener...

Contemporary theories of economic development have concentrated on socioeconomic and epidemiological indices of development to the exclusion of issues of psychological and spiritual development. Yet, economic development without attention to individual human development may produce increasing...

There is not much research on welfare-economics from the perspective of human wellbeing (happiness). The main reason is that this is qualitative and subjective phenomena are not easily captured by measurement. In the present endeavour, the authors tried to capture it (happiness) from the...

Die ?konomisch-empirische Zufriedenheitsforschung ist ein noch relativ junger Zweig der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, der Befragungsdaten zur individuellen, subjektiv empfundenen Zufriedenheit analysiert. Erste empirische Evidenz auf diesem Gebiet l?sst dabei Zweifel an der Pr?misse der...

Arbeitsbericht Nr. 14 aus der Reihe "Computergestütztes Controlling"

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a learning framework in which an agent learns a policy from continual interaction with the environment. A policy is a mapping from states to actions. The agent receives rewards as feedback on the actions performed. The objective of RL is to design autonomous agents...

Understanding the nature and dynamics of conflicting opinions isa profound and challenging issue. In this paper we address severalaspects of the issue through a study of more than 3,000 Amazoncustomer reviews of the controversial bestseller The Da VinciCode, including 1,738 positive and 918...

Physical distribution services are becoming increasingly important as supply chains strive to become more efficient in the logistical flow of goods to industrial customers. Performance of these services, however, takes place during encounters that customers have with various interfacing...

The main goal of this contribution is to suggest to computer assembling company the optimal replacement of the most critical computer component according to criterion of the minimum guarantee repairs costs during warranty period. Guarantee repair costs were calculated using a method of decision...