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Behavioural Study on the transparency of online platforms : Final report
Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Francisco (contributor);  … - Europäische Kommission / Consumers, Health, … - 2018
The overall purpose of this Behavioural Study on the Transparency of Online Platforms is to understand the impact of enhanced transparency on consumer trust and behaviour in searching and selecting goods and services on online platforms in three specific areas: Area #1: The general criteria used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036382
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How to Ensure Mutual Consistency Between the Common Frame of Reference and the Review of the Consumer Acquis in the Field of Sales Law.
Veneziano, Anna - 2007
The question of u0093whereu0094 to regulate sales is of course connected to the further and more ample issue of u0093howu0094 to regulate. In its latest Green Paper, the Commission in fact asks both kinds of questions as regards, in particular, the contract of sale. Though this paper is aimed at...
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Sustainable work over the life course : concept paper
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2015
Ageing of the population is likely to threaten the ability of states to finance welfare states and social protection …
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Information acquisition and decision making in committees
Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003
This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...
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Government deficits, wealth effects and the price level in an optimizing model
Annicchiarico, Barbara - 2003
This paper investigates the in inflationary effects of fscal policy in an optimizing general equilibrium monetary model with capital accumulation, exible prices and wealth effects. The model is calibrated to Euro Area quarterly data. Simulation results show that government defcits, high debt...
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Implementing optimal control in cointegrated I(1) structural VAR models
Monti, Francesca V. - 2003
This paper examines the feasibility of implementing Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control in structural cointegrated VAR models and sheds some light on the two major problems generated by such implementation. The first aspect to be taken into account is the effect of the presence of unit roots...
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Monetary and fiscal interactions in open economies
Lombardo, Giovanni; Sutherland, Alan - 2003
u0091activistu0092 fiscal policy as a stabilisation tool is considered and a measure of the welfare gains from … international fiscal policy cooperation is derived. It is found that welfare gains from fiscal cooperation do exist provided … monetary policy is set cooperatively. There are also welfare gains from fiscal policy cooperation in a monetary union. However …
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Inflation persistence and robust monetary policy design
Coenen, Günter - 2003
This paper investigates the performance of optimised interest rate rules when there is uncertainty about a key determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inflation process. The paper focuses on the euro area and utilises two variants of...
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Inflation, factor substitution and growth
Klump, Rainer - 2003
already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining …
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Optimal dynamic risk sharing when enforcement is a decision variable
Koeppl, Thorsten V. - 2003
Societies provide institutions that are costly to use, but able to enforce long-run relationships. We study the optimal decision problem of using self-governance for risk sharing or governance through enforcement provided by these institutions. Third-party enforcement is modelled as a costly...
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