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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty
Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010
Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...
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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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Informational Content of Financial Experts' Recommendations and their Impact on Capital Markets
Kerl, Alexander Gabriel - 2008
This dissertation titled “Informational Content of Financial Experts’ Recommendations and their Impact on Capital Markets” analyzes the informational content of stock recommendations issued by financial experts. The first part of this work (namely Chapter 2 to Chapter 4) concentrates on...
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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The behavioral economics of foreign exchange markets - a psychological view on human expectation formation in foreign exchange markets
Schmidt, Robert - 2004
Devisenmarkt. Das erste Experiment untersucht die Erwartungsbildung. Hierzu werden die Prognosen von Analysten für den EUR … untersucht. Dieser Ansatz ermöglicht die Untersuchung von Feedbackschleifen auf die Erwartungsbildung, da die Erwartungen des …. Insgesamt zeigen beide Experimente, dass Menschen dazu tendieren bei der Erwartungsbildung am Devisenmarkt auf einfache …
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Reference-Dependent Preferences : Models and Experiments
Tenberge, Maximilian - 2010
In economic situations people form expectations prior to their decisions. These expectations represent a reference point and exert a strong influence on decision making and preferences. This paper surveys the theory of reference-dependent preferences. I will summarize the theoretical framework...
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Do teams alleviate or exacerbate the extrapolation bias in the stock market?
Barahona, Ricardo; Cassella, Stefano; Jansen, Kristy A. E.
Investigamos la manera en que los equipos influyen en la extrapolación de rentabilidades, un sesgo en la formación de creencias que es generalizado a nivel individual y crucial para los modelos conductuales de valoración de activos. Utilizando una muestra de gestores de fondos de inversión...
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