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Strukturwandel in der europäischen Milchviehhaltung: Ergebnisse einer regional differenzierten Befragung

Lutter, Markus - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2009

Der Wettbewerbsdruck in der europäischen Milchviehhaltung nimmt durch die fortschreitende Liberalisierung des EU-Milchmarktes zu. Bestehende agrarökonomische Forschungsmethoden sind nur begrenzt dazu in der Lage, belastbare Abschätzungen der regionalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und künftiger...

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Knowledge, complexity and networks

Saviotti, Pier Paolo - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

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Contrasting social network and tribal theories: An applied perspective

Greenacre, Luke; Freeman, Lynne; Donald, Melissa - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 7, pp. 948-954

This paper compares social network and tribal theory for their fit with the behaviour of real music communities. These … social network theory provides a better fit with the behaviour of real communities. These results imply that the a …-priori expectation should be that consumer communities conform to the social processes suggested by social network theory. However …

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Competing Coalitions in International Monetary Policy Games

Kohler, Marion - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

In Kohler (2002) we analyse coalition formation in monetary policy coordination games between n countries. We find that positive spillovers of the coalition formation process and the resulting free-rider problem limit the stable coalition size: since the coalition members are bound by the...

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Rent Seeking and the Common Agricultural Policy: Do member countries free ride on lobbying?

Furtan, William Hartley; Jensen, Maria Skovager; Sauer, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The Common Agricultural Policy is modelled as a club good providing the European Union (EU) farmer with financial benefits. We build an economic model which explains how much farmers in individual EU countries invest in rent-seeking activities in order to test for free-riding behaviour on...

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Consumer boycotts: The impact of the Iraq war on French wine sales in the U.S.

Chavis, Larry; Leslie, Phillip - In: Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7 (2009) 1, pp. 37-67

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The Private and Public Insurance Value of Conservative Biodiversity Management

Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2006

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological-economic model in which such management measures...

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Riding Free on the Signals of Others

Alexander-Cook, Kim; Bernhardt, Dan; Roberts, Joanne - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1995

This paper looks at the incentives to free-ride on the information signaling of others and shows how this can lead to delay in productive activity and to a cascade of activity once information is signaled. In the presence of increasing returns to scale to a profitable project, an initial pioneer...

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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments ? An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2007

We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing communication in such situations may have ambiguous...

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Subsidizing Rent-Seeking: Antidumping Protection and the Byrd Amendment

Olson, Kara M. - EconWPA - 2004

Theoretical comparisons of the welfare consequences of tariffs, subsidies and import licenses have relied on the assumption that firms reap no private benefits from the imposition of a tariff. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of whether a recent change in U.S. antidumping law known as...

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