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Homo Oeconomicus Versus Homo Reciprocans: Ansätze für ein Neues Wirtschaftspolitisches Leitbild?
Falk, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Politik und öffentliches Bewusstsein werden zunehmend durch ökonomische Theorien und Handlungsvorschläge mitbestimmt. Kaum ein anderes erkenntnis- und handlungsleitendes Modell hat daher einen vergleichbaren Einfluss wie das Konzept des Homo Oeconomicus. Durch die Entwicklung experimenteller...
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Ethnic Fragmentation and Police Spending: Social Identity and a Public Good
Smith, John; Ajilore, Olugbenga - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2007
this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is a rational consideration of the costs and benefits and that … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime … is increasing at a time in which crime rates are falling. Further, our results provide empirical support for the …
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Ökonomisches Konzept zur Parkraumbewirtschaftung in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Bruns, Oliver; Ebel, Heike Marie; Hohloch, Marc; … - Fakultät Wirtschaft und Management, Technische … - 2002
Die Überlastung der vorhandenen Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ballungsgebieten zu den Hauptverkehrszeiten stellt ein zunehmendes wirtschaftliches und verkehrliches Problem dar. In diesem Beitrag werden Lösungsmöglichkeiten für eine effiziente Verteilung bzw. Allokation des knappen Gutes Freie...
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Eine erweiterte Gesamtrechnung der multifunktionalen Schweizer Landwirtschaft
Schlaepfer, Felix; Mann, Stefan - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012
In diesem Beitrag wird nach Wegen gesucht, die nichtmarktlichen Leistungen der Schweizer Landwirtschaft gezielter als bislang in die Landwirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung zu integrieren. Dabei werden drei Methoden geprüft: Die Erfassung der leistungsbezogenen Direktzahlungen, die Ermittlung der...
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Premières applications de la pharmacogénomique en oncologie. Stratégies industrielles et enjeux de régulation publique
Seror, Valérie; Elasri, Karim; Avenel, Éric - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 120 (2007) 4, pp. 13-13
The present paper aims to analyze industrial strategies (involving biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms) in the context of oncology where the toxicity of chemotherapies used for cancer management make the development of pharmacogenomic testing particularly relevant, considering the possibility...
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Peer-to-peer Networks and Complementary Goods: The Impact of Openness and Innovation on Profitable Piracy
Texier, Thomas Le; Gordah, Maher - In: Economic Analysis 44 (2011), pp. 15-37
File-sharing is often depicted as detrimental to traditional commercial activities and tends to dissuade official digital goods’ producers from innovating. Meanwhile, evidence shows that producers are likely to provide complementary hardware goods that are compatible with digital goods...
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On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications
Chambers, Christopher P.; Echenique, Federico; Shmaya, Eran - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007
We study the behavioral denition of complementary goods: if the price of one good increases, demand for a complementary good must decrease. We obtain its full implications for observable demand behavior (its testable implications), and for the consumer's underlying preferences. We characterize...
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Is Bundling Anticompetitive?
CHIOVEANU, Ioana - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
I analyze the implications of bundling on price competition in a market for complementary products. Using a model of imperfect competition with product differentiation, I identify the incentives to bundle for two types of demand functions and study how they change with the size of the bundle....
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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects
Economides, Nicholas; Viard, Brian - EconWPA - 2004
We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of complementary goods provided either by it or by other firms. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of complementary goods, i.e., the extent of...
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A Second-Best Mechanism for Land Assembly
Grossman, Zachary; Pincus, Jonathan; Shapiro, Perry - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2010
Land can be inefficiently allocated when attempts to assemble separately-owned pieces of land into large parcels are frustrated by holdout landowners. The existing land-assembly institution of eminent domain can be used neither to gauge efficiency nor to determine how to compensate displaced...
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