Agilität, Kompetenzmanagement und (digitales) Lernen sind nur wenige Schlagworte, mit denen sich Unternehmen und insbesondere das berufliche Bildungspersonal im Kontext moderner Arbeit auseinandersetzen müssen. Doch welche Lern- und Entwicklungsprozesse im Kontext der digitalen Transformation...

Die Arbeit "Samen und die Erklärung des Lebendigen. Ein Vergleich von Robert Boyle und Isaac Newton" betrachtet den Begriff des Samens als Vorstellung eines lebengebenden Elementes aller Dinge und Individuen im wissenschaftlichen Kontext. Dieser Samen stand Synonym für die Vorstellung vieler...

We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates standard risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting. Our estimates indicate that nonlinear...

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent...

This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special cases of self-insurance and the complete markets...

This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among lowincome people in southern Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance...

There exist a vast number of studies on the banking industry. However, the insurance industry remains relatively unexplored. Increasingly, Austrian insurance institutions are becoming important as financial intermediaries in the domestic market, and - based on proximity advantage - also in the...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by afforestation and reforestation project activities under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are vulnerable to a variety of risks and uncertainties, resulting in the partial or total reversal of such removals. Hence, GHG removals from these...

When countries, and macroeconomic models, open up to international capital markets, the welfare gains available through completion of financial markets for contingencies potentially are much greater than those available from access to noncontingent international borrowing. Intercasual insurance,...