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In some recent papers, such as Elliott & van der Hoek, Hu & Öksendal, a fractional Black-Scholes model have been proposed as an improvement of the classical Black-Scholes model. Common to these fractional Black-Scholes models, is that the driving Brownian motion is replaced by a fractional...
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scholars. The first memoir is on Dr. Vernon W. Ruttan and the UP School of Economics during the 1960s. His contributions to the … development of the UP School of Economics and of the Philippine economic profession as remembered here were incidental to his main …
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More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...
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the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using natural science methods in economics was met with little … understanding and often considerable hostility. I found economics to be driven less by common sense and empirical evidence, than by … ideology. I feel that the scientific work that I have done on specific, long standing and fundamental problems in economics and …
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We explore the scientific potential of virtual worlds for experimental economists. In particular, we report the results of a series of virtual world experiments designed to examine the suitability of (a) users as subjects and (b) the computer interface as an experimental platform. Formal results...
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The purpose of this note is to contribute to the emerging common understanding between the natural science, economic and social science perspectives on the 'value' of ecosystems and biodiversity. Given the inherent complexity of nature it is not surprising that the concept of 'value is capable...
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Die global gespeicherte Menge an Daten wächst exponentiell. Nach der im November 2018 veröffentlichten Studie "Data Age 2025 - The Digitization of the World" (Reinsel/Gantz/Rydning 2018) wird ein Wachstum des globalen Datenvolumens von 33 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 auf 175 ZB in 2025 erwartet. In...
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Die zunehmende Digitalisierung unserer Lebenswelt in den letzten Jahrzehnten hat zu einer Reihe von neuen Datenquellen für die Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften geführt. Hierzu gehören vor allem auch unstrukturierte Daten, die sich dadurch auszeichnen, dass sie nicht in Form...
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Der Ökonom Thomas Schelling, Nobelpreisträger des Jahres 2005, hat ein beeindruckendes Gesamtwerk verfasst. Die von ihm behandelten Themen sind im weiteren Sinne institutionenökonomischer Natur. Sie reichen von militärstrategischen Fragen über Phänomene gelingenden oder misslingenden...
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Ähnlich wie Niklas Luhmann entwickelt auch Douglass Norths ökonomische Geschichtstheorie eine spezifische Diagnose der Moderne. Das vorliegende Korreferat diskutiert in fünf Schritten, zu welchen Fragen sich das (ordonomische) Rational- Choice-Programm von einer solchen Diagnose der Moderne...
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