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Generation Adjusted Discounting in Long-term Decision-making

Bayer, Stefan - 2000

Wir analysieren die Vorgehensweise bei der Diskontierung langfristiger Projekte. Unsere Untersuchungen zur reinen … formulation of an adjusted OLG-discounting method (GAD) of consumption units, taking into consideration intra- and …

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Evaluation of degrees of cost efficiency of agricultural enterprises

Střeleček, František; Lososová, Jana; Zdeněk, Radek; … - 2012

Authors deal in the paper with evaluation of cost efficiency of farms in years 2006–2009 based on authors’ database of farms classified according to level of cost/revenue ratio. After expressive growth of production in 2007 the number of farms with decreasing volume of production increased....

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Mandatory Works Councils in Germany: Their Effects on Productivity and Profits

Müller, Steffen - 2009

Arbeitnehmer haben in Deutschland das Recht zur Wahl von Betriebsräten. Betriebsräte haben gesetzliche Informations-, Konsultations- und Mitbestimmungsrechte. Die Effekte von Betriebsräten auf Produktivität und Gewinne von mittelgroßen Betrieben des verarbeitenden Gewerbes werden mit Daten...

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Individual QoS versus aggregate QoS: A loss performance study

Xu, Ying; Guérin, Roch A - 2005

This paper explores the differences that can exist between individual and aggregate loss guarantees in an environment … resources, e.g., bandwidth or buffer, required to ensure that all individual loss measures remain below their desired target …. This paper's contributions are in developing analytical models that enable the evaluation of individual loss probabilities …

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Job search with nonparticipation

Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

provide micro evidence that the job search environment of unemployed workers is non-stationary because of loss of skills. …

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Frames of Mind in Intertemporal Choice

Loewenstein, George - 1988

Recent research has demonstrated that choices between gambles are systematically influenced by the way they are expressed. Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory (1979) explains many of these "framing" effects as shifts in the point of reference from which prospects are evaluated. This paper...

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Discounting Nordhaus

Michl, Thomas R. - 2008

This paper evaluates Nordhaus’s neoclassical complaints about the Stern Review from the vantage point of classical growth theory. Nordhaus argues that the Stern Review exaggerates the effects of global warming because it uses a discount rate that is well below the market rate of return on...

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Intergenerational Discounting: A new Approach

Bayer, Stefan; Cansier, Dieter - 1998

adjusted OLG-discounting method of consumption units, taking into consideration intra- and intergenerational aspects. At the …

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Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?

Newell, Richard G.; Pizer, William A. - 2001

,000 relative to conventional discounting. Applying the random walk model to the consequences of climate change, we find that …

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Sequential Search With Ordinal Ranks and Cardinal Values: An Infinite Discounted Secretary Problem

Palley, Asa Benjamin - 2009

We consider an extension of the classical secretary problem where a decision maker observes only the relative ranks of a sequence of up to N applicants, whose true values are i.i.d. U[0,1] random variables. Applicants arrive according to a homogeneous Poisson Process, and the decision maker...

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