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Disentangling motivational and experiential aspects of "Utility": A neuroeconomics perspective

Witt, Ulrich; Binder, Martin - 2011

Although decision makers are often reported to have difficulties in making comparisons between multi-dimensional decision outcomes, economic theory assumes a uni-dimensional utility measure. This paper reviews evidence from behavioral and brain sciences to assess whether, and for what reasons,...

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Disentangling motivational and experiential aspects of "utility" : a neuroeconomics perspective

Witt, Ulrich; Binder, Martin - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 36 (2013), pp. 27-40

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On the relationship between aging, edical progress and age-specific health care expenditures

Ried, Walter - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of population aging, driven by medical progress, upon agespecific expenditure on …

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Aging in a Neoclassical Theory of Labor Demand

Christiaans, Thomas - 2003

This paper introduces aging of workers into the neoclassical theory of labor demand. Among other things, it is shown … standard model without aging, the analysis of such issues has not been possible up to now. The main results derived for …

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Aging, social security design, and capital accumulation

Dedry, Antoine; Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social … shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or increasing longevity, and the type of unfunded social security … provides a refinement to common policy recommendations that favor eliminating mandatory early retirement regulations in aging …

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Après nous le déluge? : direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in aging societies

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016 - Version: January 2016

To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...