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Fraud and free riding in tropical forests â€“ on the potential for certification to enforce sustainable resource use indirectly

Lippert, Christian - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (2009) 3

Certification schemes for forest products are understood by many as a way to promote sustainable resource use when it is impossible to rely on direct enforcement of process standards. Based on the concept of ‘Self-Enforcing Contracts’, this study develops a market model that simulates the...

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Bank-runs und Moral-hazard

Gontermann, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität … - 2003

Im klassischen Modell von Diamond und Dybvig (1983) werden Bank-runs durch sich selbst erfüllende pessimistische Erwartungen der Anleger provoziert. Sie sind damit ein Sonnenflecken-Phänomen. Die spekulativen Runs können u.a. durch eine Einlagenversicherung vermieden werden. Allerdings...

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Capital Adequacy Requirements and the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy

Gontermann, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität … - 2003

In this paper a modified version of Bernanke and Blinder�s (1988) model of the bank lending channel of monetary policy under asymmetric information is presented. If, aside from reserve requirements, banks have to meet capital adequacy requirements as well, then the results suggested by...

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On the Possibility of Credit Rationing in the Stiglitz-Weiss Model

Arnold, Lutz G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität … - 2005

Contrary to what is consistently assumed in the literature, the return function cannot be hump-shaped in the Stiglitz-Weiss (1981) model. This has important consequences for the possible occurrence of credit rationing and redlining. With a single class of borrowers, banks offer credit in two...

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Would you like to be a prosumer? Information revelation, personalization and price discrimination in electronic markets

Morasch, Karl; Bandulet, Martin - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2003

Electronic commerce and flexible manufacturing allow personalization of initially standardized products at low cost. Will customers provide the information necessary for personalization? Assuming that a consumer can control the amount of information revealed, we analyze how his decision...

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Understanding and Managing Behavioural Risks -The Case of Food Risks Caused by Malpractice in Poultry Production

Hirschauer, Norbert; Zwoll, Stefan - Department für Agrarökonomie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - 2006

The probability that actors in economic relationships break rules increases with the profits they thus expect to earn. It decreases with the probability and level of short- and long-term losses resulting from disclosure. It also decreases with the level of social context factors and intrinsic...

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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation … theory foundations, insofar as they impose a utility indicator function as a primitive concept via persuasion, rather than … to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …

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A Theoretical Bayesian Game Model for the Vendor-Retailer Relation

Emil CRI?AN; PARPUCEA, Ilie - In: Economia. Seria Management 15 (2012) 1, pp. 99-107

We consider an equilibrated supply chain with two equal partners, a vendor and a retailer (also called newsboy type products supply chain). The actions of each partner are driven by profit. Given the fact that at supply chain level are specific external influences which affect the costs and...

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Sourcing under cost information asymmetry when facing time-sensitive customers

Xu, He; Yao, Nian; Tong, Shilu - In: International Journal of Production Economics 144 (2013) 2, pp. 599-609

We study a supply chain with a manufacturer and two different suppliers. One supplier is a big company abroad, who is prime and offers high quality modules with long lead time. The other supplier is a small local company, taken as the urgent supplier by the manufacturer, who can produce modules...

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A distributed coordination mechanism for supply networks with asymmetric information

Egri, Péter; Váncza, József - In: European Journal of Operational Research 226 (2013) 3, pp. 452-460

The paper analyses the problem of coordination in supply networks of multiple retailers and a single supplier, where partners have asymmetric, private information of demand and costs. After stating generic requirements like distributedness, truthfulness, efficiency and budget balance, we use the...

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