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Going offshore : investments in German wind energy under uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2015
Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German offshore wind farms. The focus of the analysis is the mode of action of the German feed-in tariff system for offshore wind energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that...
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Investment behavior in agriculture - an analysis of the explanatory potential of the real options approach
Tubetov, Dulat - 2013
The dissertation mainly consists of two articles: INVESTMENTS IN KAZAKHSTANI DAIRY FARMING: A COMPARISON OF THE CLASSICAL INVESTMENT THEORY AND THE REAL OPTIONS APPROACH Abstract This study analyzes the explanatory potential of the real options approach (ROA) regarding the reluctance of...
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Labour demand in Germany : an assessment of non-wage labour costs
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2003
The data indicate that non-wage labour costs in Germany have reached a record high in recent years. From 1972 to 2001, the ratio of non-wage labour costs to direct compensation in West German manufacturing industry rose from 55.6 per cent to 81.2 per cent. The topic of non-wage labour costs is...
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Comparison of the investment behavior of German and Kazahkhstani farmers : an experimental approach
Tubetov, Dulat; Maart-Nölck, Syster Christin; … - 2012
Kazakhstan and Germany have different development levels of the agricultural sectors. One of the explanations for this fact might be the different investment behavior of farmers in the two countries. We experimentally analyze whether the investment behavior of farmers is consistent with the...
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Abandonment of milk production under uncertainty and inefficiency : the case of western German Farms
Pieralli, Simone; Hüttel, Silke; Odening, Martin - In: European review of agricultural economics : ERAE 44 (2017) 3, pp. 425-454
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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company
Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf - 2008
probit estimation in order to extract the relationship between the probability of overtime and of promotion. Unobserved … respect to overtime and promotion adjustments, is split into two estimates. On the one hand we do not distinguish between the … a promotion reduces the probability to leave the firm while overtime is positively associated with an external job …
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - 2005
opportunities of promotion using the British Household Panel Survey data set. Our analysis shows that the perceived probability of … promotion increases with working time and that this result is robust to various econometric specifications. …
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Advanced mechanisms for the promotion of renewable energy: models for the future evolution of the German Renewable Energy Act
Langniß, Ole; Diekmann, Jochen; Lehr, Ulrike - 2008
The German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has been very successful in promoting the deployment of wind power plants and other renewable energy power generating technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG-power in the generation portfolio, increasing amounts of fluctuating power generation,...
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The impact of context and promotion on consumer responses and preferences in out-of-stock situations
Wiebach, Nicole; Diels, Jana L. - 2011
-dependence of substitution behavior in out-of-stock (OOS) situations and provides evidence for the relevance of promotion as …
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Customer reactions in Out-of-Stock situations: Do promotion-induced phantom positions alleviate the similarity substitution hypothsis?
Diels, Jana Luisa; Wiebach, Nicole - 2011
in accordance to a negative similarity effect which is reduced, however, for OOS items on promotion. The empirical …
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