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Trade, climate policy and carbon leakage : theory and empirical evidence
Aichele, Rahel - 2013
This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...
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Nonresponse in business tendency surveys : theoretical discourse and empirical evidence
Seiler, Christian - 2013
Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Impact of health aid on infant mortality rate
Yousuf, Ahmed Sadek - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from in total 135 countries, between 1975 and 2010. According to the findings, aid comes to have a statistically significant and positive effect on infant mortality rate, as doubling of aid leads to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009692208
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Production structure models and applications within a Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) Framework
Turner, Lyle Robert - 2007
Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) is an axiomatic and statistical theory of basic accounting measurement practice. The aim of the SACT analysis, among others, is to determine the statistical nature of both the physical production system of an accounting entity and its related costs, which...
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A Bayesian approach to financial model calibration, uncertainty measures and optimal hedging
Gupta, Alok; Reisinger, Christoph - 2010
look at the problem of calibrating financial models, measuring the model uncertainty of a claim and choosing an optimal … uncertainty. Using the framework for market risk measures we propose axioms for new classes of model uncertainty measures. Similar … to the market risk case, we prove representation theorems for coherent and convex model uncertainty measures. Example …
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Money and Production: A Pluralist Analysis
Weir, Diarmid J. G. - 2008
impact of uncertainty and failed expectations induced by money leads to specific patterns of economic disruption. These …
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Abhängigkeit in Geschäftsbeziehungen
Iwohn, Andrei - 1997
investments and make business model calculable. Likewise demand side faces uncertainty: evaluation of suppliers and whose outputs … then. Therefore, repeating transactions with same counterparty can be seen as instrument reducing uncertainty and imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467182
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Environmental external costs from power generation by renewable energies
Braun, Martin - 2004
In the following decades there will be a fundamental structural change in the European power supply system. This structural change is forced by several factors, e.g. the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme, the strategic goal for the European Union of a more sustainable...
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Unsicherheit der Verteilungs- und Armutspolitik im ökonomischen Transformationsprozess
Diehl, Martin - 2006
datas and poverty data as well as the uncertainty of respective models demand implications for implementation, concepts and … for the formulation of policy objectives. The implicit uncertainty in distributional policies is more pronounced than the … respective uncertainty of allocational or stabilizational policies. Concluding, the author derives generell implications for …
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