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I study how savers allocate funds between boundedly rational firms which follow simple pricing rules. Firms need cash to pay their inputs in advance, and savers-shareholders allocate cash between them so as to maximize their rate of return. When the rate of return on each firm is observed, there...
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Within an organization, a bounded rational principal organizes a promotion test based on a sequence of test regarding candidates' relative performances. We assume the principal to suffer from limited ability to rank the performances, only identifying the best in each test. Furthermore, he...
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Politik hat vielfach zum Ziel, das Verhalten von Wirtschaftssubjekten durch eine Veränderung der Rahmenbedingungen zu steuern. Bei der Politikfolgenabschätzung müssen deshalb Voraussagen gemacht werden, wie Menschen sich an veränderte ökonomische Bedingungen anpassen. Eine wichtige...
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O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of...
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-if” utility theory to account for biases and deviations, and substantially more careful observation of successful decision makers … frequently put forward in behavioral economics to justify “psychological” models that add new parameters to fit decision outcome …-axiomatic approach to normative analysis focused on veridical descriptions of decision process and a matching principle – between …
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Which of Germany’s regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work—on objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept “quality of life”. This paper uses recent research projects that determine this parameter to examine the spatial distribution of quality...
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Dieser Aufsatz erweitert den Kenntnisstand der ökonomischenForschung bezüglich regionaler Lebensqualitäten in Deutschland. Dafür wird die Rolle regionaler (quasi-)öffentlicher Güter („Amenities“) im Preisbildungsprozess regionaler Wohnungsmieten und Arbeitslöhne auf neuartige Weise...
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Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die betriebliche Entscheidung für eine naturschutzfachliche Optimierung abhängig ist von der …
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probabilities assumed in Knightian decision theory. I argue that some standard uses of classical inference are Knightian in spirit … classical statisticians act unconsciously as Knightian decision makers. If one accepts this argument, then it is of interest to …
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theory of options in financial markets, which permits a much richer dynamic framework than was possible with the traditional … theory of investment. The authors present the new theory in a clear and systematic way, and consolidate, synthesize, and … extend the various strands of research that have come out of the theory. Their book shows the importance of the theory for …
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