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Typology of recreational-tourism resources as an important element of the tourist offer

Gjorgievski, Mijalce; Kozuharov, Saso; Nakovski, Dejan - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 53-60

Tourism or the hospitality industry is among those economic activities that apart from realizing direct economic profits, it directly or indirectly impacts on the development of many other industries. Tourism through the tourist movements has a major impact on the geographical space, this effect...

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Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China : the sloping land conversion program in Ningxia

Démurger, Sylvie; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...

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Climate change : an inconvenient maybe

Edwards, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 5-17

The subject of Climate Change is here to stay for at least the rest of the 21st century. The extent to which climate change can be expected; the importance in its determination of anthropogenic factors, relative to natural causes; its impact on world agriculture, migration patterns and economic...

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Strukturverschiebung in der globalen Erdgaswirtschaft : Nachfrageboom in Asien, Angebotsschock in den USA

Holz, Franziska; Richter, Philipp M.; Hirschhausen, … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 31, pp. 3-11

Erdgas gewinnt weltweit immer größere Bedeutung bei der Umstrukturierung und Dekarbonisierung von Energiesystemen. Es ist flächendeckend verfügbar und flexibel einsetzbar in Verstromung, Industrie, Verkehr und im Haushaltsbereich. Im Vergleich zu anderen fossilen Energieträgern wird bei...

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The generalized hybrid averaging operator and its application in decision making

Merigó Lindahl, José M.; Casanovas Ramón, Montserrat - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 69-84

We present the generalized hybrid averaging (GHA) operator. It is a new aggregation operator that generalizes the hybrid averaging (HA) operator by using the generalized mean. Thus, we are able to generalize a wide range of mean operators such as the HA, the hybrid geometric averaging (HGA), the...

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Una herramienta de análisis teórico en la teoría de la empresa bajo incertidumbre

Rodríguez-Puerta, Inmaculada; Sebastiá Costa, Francisco; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 11 (2011), pp. 33-40

of the lemma, in the context of the same model, to study the effect of a variation in risk aversion, which had not been …

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Geburten in Ost- und Westdeutschland : erleichtert eine hohe Risikobereitschaft die Entscheidung für ein Kind?

Schmitt, Christian - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 11, pp. 18-23

- vor allem unter ostdeutschen Männern positiv auf die Entscheidung für eine Elternschaft wirkt. -- risk attitudes …

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Measuring the degree to which probability weighting affects risk-taking behavior in financial decisions

Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-39

risk-taking behavior deviates from expected utility theory in the presence of probability weighting. A group of … professional traders participates in an experiment, whose data are used to calculate risk and uncertainty premiums. This framework … allows measuring and disentangling the impact of probability weighting on risk perceptions and behavior. Several findings …

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants’ risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes … social norms is an essential factor in the formation of individual attitudes. -- risk attitudes ; ethnic persistence …

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Value relevance of financial statements information : evidence from listed firms in Kenya

Nyabundi, Melissa A. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 115-134

This study examined the relationship between share prices and dividends, earnings and book values for companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) in Kenya for the six years period between 2005 and 2010. Using panel data analysis the study found evidence that there is a positive and...

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