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Aktuelle Forschung in der Gartenbauökonomie : Tagungsband zum 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche Göttingen

Dirksmeyer, Walter (ed.); Theuvsen, Ludwig (ed.); … - 2015

Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die Veranstaltung...

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Optimally differentiated carbon prices for unilateral climate policy

Boeters, Stefan - 2013

Economic thought on climate policy as an instance of environmental regulation is strongly influenced by the principle of a uniform carbon price. Economists acknowledge that this principle breaks down in a second-best world with other distortions, such as taxes and market power in domestic and...

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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important...

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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations? ; conference paper

Lohmann, Steffen - 2013

Existing work on the economics of well-being suggests that a person's subjective well-being depends to a large degree on his relative standing within his social environment. In this paper, we examine whether access to modern information and telecommunication technologies has an impact on...

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Distant event, local effects? : Fukushima and the German housing market ; conference paper

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2014

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germanys energy policy which led … for real estate and employing a difference-in-differences approach, we find that Fukushima reduced house prices near … nuclear power plants that were in operation before Fukushima by almost 5%. House prices near sites that were shut down right …

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