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Studie zu Dispozinsen / Ratenkrediten - Forschungsvorhaben zur Bereitstellung wissenschaftlicher Entscheidungshilfe für das Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verb...
Dick, Christian D.; Knobloch, Michael; Al-Umaray, Kerim S. - 2012
Fehlnutzungen zu vermeiden: hierzu gehören eine klare Wucher- bzw. Preisobergrenze und eine hervorgehobene Preisangabe in der … Konditionen. Es ist möglich, dass klare Wucher- bzw. Preisobergrenzen zu einer Kostenverlagerung führen; dies kann anhand dieser … different legal rules, among such possible regulations are clear usury ceilings, prominent price disclosure in advertisements …
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Increasing resilience and security of supply production post-COVID-19: from global to regional value chains? Case studies on medical and pharmaceutical products
Grumiller, Jan; Grohs, Hannes; Reiner, Christian - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of medical product and pharmaceutical global value chains (GVCs). Against this background, debates on various policies to increase the resilience of these supply chains intensified. However, there is currently no consensus on which policies are...
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Defining and detecting predatory lending
Morgan, Donald P. - 2007
We define predatory lending as a welfare-reducing provision of credit. Using a textbook model, we show that lenders profit if they can tempt households into “debt traps,” that is, overborrowing and delinquency. We then test whether payday lending fits our definition of predatory. We find...
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Zitierhäufigkeit als Qualitätsindikator: eine Rangordnung der amerikanischen politikwissenschaftlichen Fachbereiche in den 80er Jahren
Klingemann, Hans-Dieter - In: Evaluation von Forschung: Methoden, Ergebnisse, …, (pp. 201-214). 1988
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Bank loan announcements and borrower stock returns: does bank origin matter?
Ongena, Steven; Roscovan, Viorel - 2009
bank identities and reputation seem to matter a great deal. …
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...
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Constrained discretion and central bank transparency
Bianchi, Francesco; Melosi, Leonardo - 2014
We develop and estimate a general equilibrium model in which monetary policy can deviate from active in.ation stabilization and agents face uncertainty about the nature of these deviations. When observing a deviation, agents conduct Bayesian learning to infer its likely duration. Under...
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Reputation and forecast revisions: Evidence from the FOMC
Tillmann, Peter - 2011
forecasts is similar to that of private sector forecasters and is consistent with theories of reputation building among …
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Fame and the fortune of academic economists: How the market rewards influential research in economics
Hilmer, Christiana E.; Hilmer, Michael J.; Ransom, … - 2012
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
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