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Zur Problematik generationengerechten Verhaltens aus Sicht der Neuen Politischen ?konomik am Beispiel der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung

Dominick, Florian - 2008

Krankenversicherung (GKV) daher die Forschungsfrage, ob in einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung Generationengerechtigkeit umgesetzt wird …

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First Solution: a safety-first plan backfires

Ballard, Roger - 2007

facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …

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Wie aussagefähig sind internationale Steuerbelastungsvergleiche von Investitionen? Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Studie von Jacobs / Spengel.

Enßlin, Ulrich - 1998

Die zwei Ansätze sind konzeptionell gesehen zweckmäßige Berechnungswege,115um ihregesteckten Ziele zu erreichen. Um die Rentabilitätswirkung der Steuersysteme zu messenund zu vergleichen, muß bei dem Ansatz der effektiven Grenzsteuerbelastung auf eineentscheidungsneutrale...

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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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An Investigation into the Impact of Income, Culture and Religion on Consumption Behaviour: A Comparative Study of the Malay and the Chinese Consumers in Malaysia

Fatt Sian, Lai - 2009

The study of consumer behaviour has attracted much attention from researchers.Models have been postulated and re-postulated in many attempts to explain thedecision process of consumers as it changes over time and space, as well as indifferent environments such as culture, race and religion. The...

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Wealth, mother's education and physical access as determinants of retail sector net use in rural Kenya

Noor, Abdisalan M.; Omumbo, Judith A; Amin, Abdinasir A.; … - 2006

homestead wealth on use of nets purchased from the retail sector is well documented, however, the competing influence of mother … were collected at homestead, mother and child (aged < 5 years) levels. An assets-based wealth index was developed using … before the interview; 58% (327) of the nets used were purchased from the retail sector. Homestead wealth (adjusted OR = 10 …

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Wealth effects on consumer spending in the US economy

Avramenko, Andriy - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model … is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the … offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid …

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