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Williamson, Oliver. E (born 1932)
Masten, Scott E. - Palgrave Macmillan
Oliver E. Williamson is the 2009 co-recipient (with Elinor Ostrom) of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded ‘for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm’.
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Social Equivalent of Free Energy
Stepanic, Josip - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 2 (2004) 1, pp. 53-60
Characterisation of unbounded resources of a social system within the sociological interpretation has resulted in a large number of different notions, which are relevant in different situations. From the view point of statistical mechanics, these notions resemble free energy. In this paper the...
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction: How robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …
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Zufriedenheit und relatives Einkommen: Eine empirische Analyse von inter- und intrapersonellen Einkommensvergleichen aus ?konomischer Perspektive
Wunder, Christoph - 2009
Einkommensvergleichen auf die finanzielle Zufriedenheit. Es wird untersucht, ob und in welchem Ausma? eine Adaptation von Bed …?rfnissen diagnostiziert werden kann. W?hrend aktuelle Studien dabei ausschlie?lich auf den Ansatz zur?ckgreifen, Adaptation als eine … Prozesse hin. Die Richtung der Adaptation h?ngt dabei offenbar davon ab, ob eine Verbesserung oder eine Verschlechterung der …
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction: How robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316019
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Support to the Justice and Home Affairs Acquis : Thematic Evaluation Report of the European Union Phare Programme ; Phare from Pre-Accession to Accession
ECOTEC Research and Consulting Limited, Birmingham - 2006
This report’s key objectives are to evaluate the contribution which the Phare programme has made to the legal alignment, implementation and enforcement of the Justice & Home Affairs acquis in the New Member States and in the two remaining Phare beneficiary candidate countries, Bulgaria and...
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Support to Public Administrative and Judicial Capacity in Bulgaria and Romania : Thematic Evaluation Report of the European Union Phare Programme ; Phare from Pre-Accession to Acce...
ECOTEC Research and Consulting Limited, Birmingham - 2006
This report’s key objectives are to evaluate the contribution which the Phare programme has made to the transposition, implementation and enforcement of ‘horizontal’ Public Administrative and Judicial Capacity (PAJC) development in Bulgaria and Romania, and to identify lessons learned,...
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Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of child or spouse and being a victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to...
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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit
Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
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Using Microsimulation Feedback for Trip Adaptation for Realistic Traffic in Dallas
Nagel, K.; Barrett, Christopher L. - Santa Fe Institute - 1997
This paper presents a day-to-day re-routing relaxation approach for traffic simulations. Starting from an initial planset for the routes, the route-based microsimulation is exxecuted. The result of the microsimulation is fed into a re-router, which re-routes a certain percentage of all trips....
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