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The problem of intergenerational equity in the field of national health insurance, analysed from the perspective of public choice theory
Dominick, Florian - 2008
Krankenversicherung (GKV) daher die Forschungsfrage, ob in einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung Generationengerechtigkeit umgesetzt wird … bzw. wer von ihrer Umsetzung einen Nutzen hat.Zun?chst wird auf Grundlage der Theorie der Neuen Politischen ?konomik … evaluated from the point of view of public choice theory to see if, and if yes, to what extent, it is intergenerationally …
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Eigenverantwortliche Individuen und Pro-Aktive Unternehmen
Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Die Arbeit setzt sich aus acht Kapiteln zusammen, die jeweils auf eigenst?ndigen Beitr?gen basieren. Die Beitr?ge insgesamt besch?ftigen sich mit der Fragestellung, wie der Nationalstaat, die Individuen und die Unternehmen gemeinsam aktuellen wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Herausforderungen...
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The Economics of Sustainability: A Review of Journal Articles
Pezzey, John C.V.; Toman, Michael A. - 2002
Concern about sustainability helped to launch a new agenda for development and environmental economics and challenged many of the fundamental goals and assumptions of the conventional, neoclassical economics of growth and development. We review 25 years' of refereed journal articles on the...
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Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?
Newell, Richard G.; Pizer, William A. - 2001
Costs and benefits in the distant future-such as those associated with global warming, long-lived infrastructure, hazardous and radioactive waste, and biodiversity-often have little value today when measured with conventional discount rates. We demonstrate that when the future path of this...
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Pollution perception. An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schuhmacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468330
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468335
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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