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Enlargements and the principles of designing EU decision-making procedures

Widgrén, Mika - 2003

This paper examines how neutral the current EU decision-making procedures are to membership and how well they obey certain transparent general constitutional principles. The paper evaluates the performance of the procedures by strategic and classical power indices. The main emphasis in the...

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Enlargements and the principles of designing EU : decision-making procedures

Widgrén, Mika - 2003

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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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Endogenous social identity and group choice : conference paper

Hett, Florian; Kröll, Markus; Mechtel, Mario - 2014

This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify with the respective group. Inducing a trade-off between...

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The desire to influence others : conference paper

Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Schröder, Marina - 2014

We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual s social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call...

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Strive to be first and avoid being last : an experiment on relative performance incentives ; conference paper

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2013

levels for three tournament incentive schemes: reward tournaments, punishment tournaments, and tournaments combining reward … and punishment. We test the model s predictions in a laboratory experiment and find that the combination of reward and … punishment produces the highest effort from agents, especially in contests of a relatively larger size. Punishment is shown to be …

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Equality-efficiency trade-off within French and German couples : a comparative experimental study ; conference paper

Couprie, Hélène; Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; … - 2013

We present the results of an experiment that measures social preferences within couples in a context where intra-household pay-off inequality can be reduced at the cost of diminishing household income. We measure social norms regarding this efficiency-equality trade-off and implement a...

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Consequences of connection failure : centrality and the importance for cohesion ; conference paper

Belau-Garmann, Julia - 2014

This paper suggests a new approach for centrality measures for general (weighted) networks taking into account the importance for cohesion and relative power of connections. While existing literature either ignores the importance for cohesion or measures it by analyzing consequences arising from...

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Network access and market power : conference paper

Hubert, Franz; Orlova, Ekaterina - 2014 - This version: January 2014

We study the impact of the liberalization of EU natural gas markets on the balance of power between `local champions', customers, and outside producers. We distinguish between two steps of the reform: 1. opening access to transit pipes and 2. opening access to distribution systems, hence...

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Pipeline power : a case study of strategic network investments ; conference paper

Hubert, Franz; Cobanli, Onur - 2014 - This version: January 2014

We use the Shapley value and the nucleolus to analyze the impact of three controversial pipeline projects on the power structure in the Eurasian trade of natural gas. Two pipelines, `Nord Stream' and `South Stream', allow Russian gas to bypass transit countries, Ukraine and Belarus. The third...

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