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Four Essays on Debt Securitization and Entrepreneurial Finance
Weber, Thomas - 2008
Chapter 1 is joint work with Günter Franke, University of Konstanz, and Markus Herrmann, HSBC London, and addresses the question how collateralized debt obligation (CDO-) transactions are designed. An important issue is the information asymmetry about the quality of securitized debt between...
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
Traeger, Christian - 2006
Konsum. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird ein verallgemeinertes Bewertungsmodell sowie ein neues Konzept der Risikoaversion … eingeführt. Dieses Konzept der intertemporalen Risikoaversion greift einen wichtigen Aspekt des Vorsichtsprinzips auf. Der dritte … schwacher Nachhaltigkeit. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit führt das Konzept der intertemporalen Risikoaversion in einem didaktisch …
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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Dürsch, Peter - 2010
' performances depend on their opponents' learning algorithm. Furthermore, we test whether subjects try to influence those algorithms … Kooperation in einem einmaligen Spiel. Darüber hinaus finden wir keinen Hinweis darauf, dass Risikoaversion ein Faktor ist …, welcher die Entscheidung zu kooperieren beeinflusst. …
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Examining solid waste management issues in the City of Bryan
Mjelde, James W. (contributor) - 2004
Economic aspects of household recycling behavior and attitudes in City of Bryan are examined to improve solid waste management policies in the city. Using survey data collected by mail and personal interviews, residents’ attitudes towards solid waste management are analyzed, in general, and...
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Are There Income Effects on Global Willingness to Pay for Biodiversity Conservation?
Bredahl Jacobsen, Jette; Hanley, Nick - 2009
This paper is concerned with the empirical relationship between biodiversity conservation values and income. We use random effects panel models to examine the effects of income, and then GDP per capita, on willingness to pay for habitat and biodiversity conservation. In a meta-analysis, 145...
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De-central Power Generation as Suitable Supplement to Urban Power Distribution Systems? Results from a Choice Experiment in India
Rommel, Kai; Sagebiel, Julian - 2011
"The power sector in the south IndianState of Andhra Pradesh faces a significant supply deficit as well as restrictions in the national availability of fossil resources and grid capacity. Moreover, electricity supply is of low quality in terms of scheduled and unscheduled power cuts and peak...
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Location Choice and the Value of Spatially Delineated Amenities
Bishop, Kelly Catherine - 2008
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I outline a hedonic equilibrium model that explicitly controls for moving costs and forward-looking behavior. Hedonic equilibrium models allow researchers to recover willingness to pay for spatially delineated amenities by using the notion that...
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Using contingent choice methods to assess consumer preferences about health plan design
Kapur, Kanika; Marquis, M. Susan; Buntin, Melinda J. … - 2005
American insurers are designing products to contain healthcare costs by making consumers financially responsible for their choices. Little is known about how consumers will view these new designs. Our objective is to examine consumer preferences for selected benefit designs.Methods: We used the...
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Essays in regulatory focus and price acceptance
Patil, Ashutosh R. - 2009
Part one of the thesis studies differential diagnosticity towards substantive extrinsic information available in the environment. This research tests the interaction between regulatory focus and availability of extrinsic-substantive information such as consensus information, on the range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476144
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WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR GREEN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF GEORGIA
Vatcharadze, Aleksandre - 2024
The transition to green energy is considered a necessary condition for sustainable and inclusive development. In this regard, it is necessary to intensify the efforts of the entire society. Household decisions are particularly important as they are the end users of green transformation and have...
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