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Long-term consequences of an innovative redundancy-retraining project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel mills and related firms in the metal industry have lead to large-scale redundancy plans. A special Steel Foundation was created as part of a social plan. This foundation acted like an independent training center, where...
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The allocation of the digital dividend in Austria
Börnsen, Arne; Braulke, Tim; Kruse, Jörg; Latzer, Michael - 2011
'upper digital dividend' in Austria. The underlying economic considerations are based on an analysis of the incremental value …
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Büttner, Thiess; Kraus, Margit; Rincke, Johannes - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2003) 2, pp. 252-270
Mietniveau am Ort der Hochschule die Studienortwahl bestimmen. Bezüglich der Qualität der Bildungsleistungen finden sich zwar …
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Ein Ranking von Hochschulen und (Bundes-)Ländern am Beispiel der Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Müller, Harry; Dilger, Alexander - 2011
Aufmerksamkeit. Evaluationen und Rankings schaffen für die Hochschule als Anbieter von Forschungs- und Lehrleistungen mehr Klarheit … über den eigenen Output und verringern die Informationsasymmetrien auf den Märkten, auf denen die Hochschule mit … current research output of business departments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and we propose three alternative …
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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives
Böhringer, Christoph - 2003
International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in...
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On the Relation between Dual-Rate Discounting and Substitutability
Kögel, Tomas - 2009
To justify substantial emission reductions, recent literature on cost-benefit analysis of climate change suggests discounting environment consumption with an environmental discount rate instead of a consumption discount rate that is usually used in cost-benefit analysis. The present study...
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On the Relation between Discounting of Climate Change and Edgeworth-Pareto Substitutability
Kögel, Tomas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-27, pp. 1-12
To justify substantial carbon emission reductions, recent literature on cost-benefit analysis of climate change suggests discounting environmental quality at a lower discount rate than the standard consumption discount rate. Recent literature also shows that a theoretical foundation for such a...
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Is it Worth all the Trouble? The Costs and Benefits of Antitrust Enforcement
Hüschelrath, Kai - 2008
The paper aims at assessing the costs and benefits of antitrust enforcement. The analysis starts with an investigation of why competition is typically worth protecting followed by a collection of empirical evidence which shows that competition actually needs protection by antitrust policy in...
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Labour as a utility measure in contingent valuation studies: how good is it really?
Ahlheim, Michael; Frör, Oliver; Heinke, Antonia; Duc, … - 2010
The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) aims at the assessment of people's willingness to pay (WTP) for a public project. The sum of the individual WTPs is interpreted as the social benefits of the project under consideration and compared to the project costs. If the benefits exceed the costs the...
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