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Sustainable development is a relatively well-known concept. Although there are many definitions, the underlying concepts and aims are generally agreed upon. Many local communities have established a 'vision' of sustainability in terms of policies, goals, actions, etc in order to translate...
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Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. In addition, an increasing integration of the national economies into the global economy has affected these economic relations, too. In an effort to...
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We try to build a macroeconomic index, that includes some non-market variables, to be compared to the traditional GDP … optimisation to rigorously derive an index that can be used to evaluate small projects and their contribution to well being … "welfare" as compared to GDP. Our work falls in the third category. We start from the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare …
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in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … - provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
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the present suboptimal economy. We discuss pros and cons of our approach for the measurement of welfare compared with … other approaches to applied welfare economics, especially the measurement of deadweight loss. …
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The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct …, on the one hand, often fall short in the measurement of more complex elements, such as the conditionality or the level of …
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Wir beschreiben die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von numerischen Gleichgewichtsmodellen als Instrument zur Messung der …
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Multikriterienmethoden erweisen sich als nützlich, um die Entscheidungsfindung in komplexen Situationen - wie solche eine nachhaltige Entwicklung betreffend - zu unterstützen und um mit Konflikten in einer strukturierten und transparenten Art umzugehen. Zunehmend wird multikriterielle...
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Der anhaltende Klimawandel, die Folgen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise und die aktuellen Bestrebungen in Deutschland, nach der Havarie des Atomkraftwerks Fukushima I eine zügige Wende hin zu einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung zu vollziehen, haben die öffentliche Diskussion um Quellen,...
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In this paper, we elaborate on an idea initially developed by Weitzman (1998) that justifies taking the lowest possible discount rate for far-distant future cash flows. His argument relies on the arbitrary assumption that when the future rate of return of capital (RRC) is uncertain, one should...
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