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Volkswirtschaft als Idealversagen des Marktes und der Theorien
Priddat, Birger P. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 86 (2006) 1, pp. 22-25
Die deutsche Volkswirtschaftslehre wird immer stärker durch die Anwendung mathematischer Methoden bestimmt. Ist damit eine Abkehr von der traditionellen Ordnungspolitik verbunden? Welche Folgen ergeben sich für die Politikberatung?
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A decade (and a global financial crisis) after Blinder: The interaction between researchers and policy-makers in central banks
Bussière, Matthieu; Stracca, Livio - 2010
Periods of economic and financial stress traditionally give rise to profound changes in economic theory and in the way policy decisions are taken. Motivated by the recent interest in renewing macroeconomics after the global financial crisis, we collected the views of senior central bank staff in...
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Fundamental questions on the economics of climate adaptation: Outlines of a new research programme
Heuson, Clemens; Gawel, Erik; Gebhardt, Oliver; … - 2012
discipline of economics has a key role to play in this context, especially with regard to the design, evaluation and selection of … adaptation measures and instruments. The still relatively young field of research into the economics of adaptation is growing at … pointers for the future direction of the research into the economics of climate adaptation. …
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Synchronous Leisure, Jointness and Household Labor Supply
Hallberg, Daniel - 2002
This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...
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Time for Children, a Study of Parents' Time Allocation
Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001
Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...
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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income: A cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schroeder, … - 2010
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
provide a deeper understanding of the current theoretical literature on household economics by means of a survey of its …
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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - 2012
's characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …
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Honey, I'll be working late tonight. The effect of individual work routines on leisure time synchronization of couples
Scheffel, Juliane - 2010
German time use data for 2001/02 are used to assess the impact of workplace characteristics on the private life of couples. The major aim is to solve the endogeneity resulting from individual preferences for work and leisure to identify the pure effects of the workplace independent from other...
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Ökonomie und Glück: Zurück zu den Wurzeln?
Rätzel, Steffen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 87 (2007) 5, pp. 335-344
Die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschung wendet sich nach langen Jahren der Beschäftigung mit dem Wachstum als Ziel des Wirtschaftens wieder dem Thema Nutzen oder Glück zu. Mit welchen Methoden arbeitet die Lebenszufriedenheitsforschung? Welche Implikationen sind aus ihren Ergebnissen für...
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