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Self-selection, socialization, and risk perception: an empirical study

Weisenfeld, Ursula; Ott, Ingrid - 2009

We analyze students' knowledge and risk perception of four technologies. The aim is to find out whether there is a …, advanced students perceive lower risks than beginners, and students in a technical study area perceive lower risks than … students in a non-technical area. Factor analyses show that common dimensions of risk are the technological areas and not the …

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The Perception of Students from the Economic Area on the New Learning Methods in the Knowledge Society

Dospinescu, Nicoleta; Tătăruşanu, Maria; Butnaru, … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 13 (2011) 30, pp. 527-543

, complexity and provide students both with specific habits and efficient work tools. Our research aimed at identifying the … perception of students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEAA), which belongs to “Alexandru Ioan Cuza …, e-learning, mixed), as well as at finding out the way in which students perceive the assessment of their knowledge by …

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Enhancing Social Networking Learning by Using Enterprise Social Networks

Leon, Ramona-Diana; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Raúl - In: ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion 9 (2023) 1, pp. 400-410

Social networking learning is emerging in light of the European Skills Agenda and technological development. This aims to incorporate learning techniques in social networking environments to foster formal and informal learning. However, the classical customer-oriented social networks provide an...

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Quality adjustment in non-spanning markets with variety aversion

Nishimura, Kazuhiko - In: Journal of Economic Structures 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

This paper examines the dynamic process of quality adjustment in cases where the economy lacks a sufficient number of markets for coordinating the level of attributes that configure the qualities of products. It shows that an adjustment process through the development and selection of...

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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle

Guerzoni, Marco - 2007

The aim of this paper is an investigation on the role of demand in industrial dynamics. Despite the decades-long debate on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where demand is conceived as a peculiar blend of two...

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Consumer support for environmental policies: an application to purchases of green cars

Coad, Alex; de Haan, Peter; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2008

This paper focuses on how consumer motivation can be tapped in order to encourage the adoption of cleaner technologies. Consumers are heterogeneous they may be guided by intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation. While information provision policies (such as the energy label for cars) may be...

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Will imitators follow pioneer consumers in the adoption of solar thermal systems? Empirical evidence for North-West Germany

Wörsdorfer, Julia Sophie; Kaus, Wolfhard - 2010

In Germany, solar thermal systems (STS) have only diffused to a minor extent yet. This paper analyzes, which demand side factors are decisive for the further proliferation of this environmentally benign technology. Making use of a consumer survey in North-West Germany in 2007, we examine the...

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Analyzing rebound effects

Schettkat, Ronald - 2009

Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects -so-called rebound effects- compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to this...

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Twin-peaks: What the knowledge-based approach can say about the dynamics of the world income distribution

Pyka, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J.; Cantner, Uwe - 1999

One of the most recently observed stylised facts in the field of economic growth is the persistent bimodal shape of the world income distribution.. Of course, some theoretical explanations for this new stylised fact already have been provided by neoclassical growth theory within a maximising...

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Explaining international productivity differences

Krüger, Jens; Cantner, Uwe; Hanusch, Horst - 1998

In this paper we add new results to the emerging field of investigating productivity levels rather than productivity change, as initiated by Hall and Jones (1996, 1997). To obtain measures of relative productivity levels we depart from traditional growth accounting and calculate the Malmquist...

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