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Happiness and economic growth: The evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330131
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Time horizon and the discount rate
Gollier, Christian - 1999
We discuss the selection of the socially efficient discount rate for public investment projects that entail costs and benefits in the far distant future. We show that the discount rate should be a decreasing function of time horizon under some specific restrictions on the distribution of...
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The Evaluation of Company's Intangible Assets' influence for Business Value
Savickaitė, Živilė - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 7 (2014) 3, pp. 133-155
the intangible value resources, creation of business valuation, intangible assets valuation methods and models - the … cooperation of scientific research and business. It's important to avoid a repeat of guidelines, methods, models and systems of …
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Export promotion organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean: An institutional portrait
Jordana, Jacint; Volpe Martincus, Christian; Gallo, Andrés - 2010
Virtually all Latin American and Caribbean countries have established specialized organizations to promote their exports. Existing analyses of these organizations are at best partial and fragmentary. This paper aims at overcoming these limitations of the literature by presenting a consistent,...
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A Political Economy Model of Regulation Explained Through Fuzzy Logics
Oliveira, Elizabeth Real; e Silva, Manuela Castro - 2004
some important lessons to gather from the analysis of current models of regulation. One is that there are many imperfect … view of political models of regulation, analysing them for their complexity, and attempt to provide a reasonable …: Environmental Regulation, Environmental Economics, Fuzzy Logics, Models, Pollution Control, Sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318821
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Economic and environmental sustainability: A dynamic approach in insular systems
Cavallaro, Fausto; Ciraolo, Luigi - 2002
Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the economy of small islands. The sustainable use and a rational policy of conservation of these resources are prerequisites to enable their full exploitation. However, island...
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Clusters and territorial industrial complexes: common and specific characteristics
Malov, Vladimir - 2014
"TIC ? object" and its corresponding models quite completely. Future researchers of regional clusters may pay their … require an adequate answer in conceptual and dictionary models. …
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On the Structure of Behavioral Multistate Duration Models
Dagsvik, J.K. - 1998
discrete choice models in the absence of state dependence. This assumption extends Luce's axiom; Independence from Irrelevant …
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Deriving Bounds on the Structural Vector when the Measurement Errors are Correlated: An Elaboration of the Frisch/Reiersol Approach
Willasen, Y. - 1998
In the general linear errors-in-variables model the main results have been derived under the assuption that the measurement errors are uncorrelated. However, as recognized by Bekker, Kapteyn and Wansbeek (BKW) (1997) and Lach (1993) this is often a problematic assumption to maintain in empirical...
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The Role of Experiments for the Development of Economic Theories
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009
and challenge economic theorists to explain them. Finally, many economic experiments are 'material' models. They are used …
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