Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,813
Cover Image
Making dough or baking dough? : spousal housework responsibilities in Germany, 1992 - 2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014
Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual’s contribution to household income - both in absolute and relative terms - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248208
Cover Image
Regional Knowledge Creation and R&D Collaboration in Europe : Specification of an Empirical Agent-Based Model
Duenser, Martina - 2019
This working paper reports the current stage of development of an agent-based model (ABM) of regional knowledge creation in Europe. Building on the scientific and conceptual foundations laid out before (see Duenser et al. 2017) the paper focuses on the specifications regarding model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862662
Cover Image
The labour-augmented K+S model : a laboratory for the analysis of institutional and policy regimes
Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo de Carvalho; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 2, pp. 160-184
In this work we discuss the research findings from the labour-augmented Schumpeter meeting Keynes (K+S) agent-based model. It comprises comparative dynamics experiments on an artificial economy populated by heterogeneous, interacting agents, as workers, firms, banks and the government. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307224
Cover Image
A modelling tool for interaction and correlation in demand-side market behaviour
Bremer, Jörg; Andreßen, Stefan; Rapp, Barbara; … - In: New methods for energy market modelling : proceedings …, (pp. 77-91). 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003753404
Cover Image
Lasso-type and heuristic strategies in model selection and forecasting
Savin, Ivan; Winker, Peter - 2012
Several approaches for subset recovery and improved forecasting accuracy have been proposed and studied. One way is to apply a regularization strategy and solve the model selection task as a continuous optimization problem. One of the most popular approaches in this research field is given by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630302
Cover Image
Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany
Boeters, Stefan - 2010
Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969884
Cover Image
Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets : Simulation Results for Germany
Boeters, Stefan - 2010
Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142210
Cover Image
Matheuristics for optimizing the network in German wagonload traffic
Sender, Julia; Siwczyk, Thomas; Mutzel, Petra; Clausen, Uwe - In: EURO journal on computational optimization 5 (2017) 3, pp. 367-392
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905961
Cover Image
WTP vs. WTA : Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2014
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708589
Cover Image
New Vehicle Feebates
Rivers, Nicholas - 2015
New vehicle feebate programs encourage improved fleet-wide vehicle fuel efficiency; yet analyses of these policies have been limited to ad hoc proposals. In this paper, we exploit an extensive, multi-year dataset which includes more than 16 million observations to evaluate the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032654