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Wenker, Jan L.; Rüter, Sebastian - 2015

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit und deren Bewertung, insbesondere der ökologischen Komponente des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs, gewinnt auch in der Holz- und Möbelindustrie immer mehr an Bedeutung. Zugleich ist die Möbelindustrie ein nicht unerheblicher Verbraucher von Holz und Holzwerkstoffen. Für die...

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Ökobilanz-Daten für die Erstellung von Fertighäusern in Holzbauweise

Achenbach, Hermann; Rüter, Sebastian - 2016

Durch Energieeinsparungen in der Nutzungsphase eines Gebäudes gewinnen Produktions-, Konstruktions- und Entsorgungsphase eines Gebäudes immer mehr an Bedeutung. Für eine ganzheitliche Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung hat das Europäische Komitee für Normung (CEN) daher einen horizontalen Normensatz...

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Behavioral taxation: Opportunities and challenges

Torgler, Benno - 2021

The field of behavioral taxation dates back at least to the 1950s. In this contribution I will explore the opportunities and challenges in the area, with a particular focus on tax compliance. I will focus on the data required to make further progress, discussing what can be improved when working...

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Behavioral Economics und Change Management: Beiträge der deskriptiven Entscheidungstheorie zur Erklärung des organisatorischen Konservatismus

van Baal, Sebastian - 2007

Instrumente des Change Managements dienen in erster Linie dazu, Veränderungshemmnisse in Organisationen zu überwinden. Eine Voraussetzung für einen adäquaten Einsatz der Instrumente besteht darin, die Gründe für solche Hemmnisse zu identifizieren – eine Diagnose stellt eine wesentliche...

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The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance

Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2012

experiments involving thousands of primary and secondary school students, we demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to …-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were not effective with older students. Finally, and perhaps most … incentives, many students put forth low effort on standardized tests, which may create biases in measures of student ability …

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Relative consumption concerns or non-monotonic preferences?

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We conduct a classroom survey to investigate the willingness to sacrifice consumption in absolute terms in order to ascend above others in terms of consumption levels. In contrast to other studies using survey methodologies, participants are divided into a treatment and a control group. This...

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Pawns and Queens Revisited : public provision of private goods when individuals make mistakes

Pirttilä, Jukka; Tenhunen, Sanna - 2005

This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society's marginal valuation...

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Non-welfarist optimal taxation and behavioral public economics

Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilae, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti - 2004

Research in behavioral economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to intervene, to induce behavior that is closer to what...

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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent?: evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods

Blumkin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley J.; Ganun, Yosef - 2008

The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor income (wage) taxes. We construct an environment in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this experimental framework to test whether a labor...

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Does laboratory trading mirror behavior in real world markets?: fair bargaining and competitive bidding on EBay

Bolton, Gary E.; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008

We conducted a controlled field experiment on eBay and examined to what extent both social and competitive laboratory behavior is robust to institutionally complex real world markets with experienced traders, who selected themselves into these markets. EBay's natural trading system provides...

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