Narrow search
Showing 12,121 - 12,130 of 12,286
Cover Image
Business model innovation for sustainable energy: German utilities and renewable energy
Richter, Mario - In: Energy Policy 62 (2013) C, pp. 1226-1237
German utility managers. It is found that utilities have developed viable business models for large-scale utility … recommendations for utility mangers and policy makers are derived. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709271
Cover Image
Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism
Baujard, Antoinette - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and towards post-welfarist approaches is the following. Utility is defi-ned normatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712462
Cover Image
How much is intellectual capital worth for the organization?
Kövesi, János; Tóth, Zsuzsanna E.; Jónás, Tamás - In: Acta Oeconomica 62 (2012) March, pp. 65-91
The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the use of evaluator and utility functions in order to increase the … reliability of scorecard based intellectual capital (IC) measurement methods and to express and aggregate the utility of IC … the utilities of IC components to the organization by interpreting the evaluator function as a kind of utility function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714179
Cover Image
Economics is philosophy, economics is not science
Read, Rupert - In: International Journal of Green Economics 1 (2007) 3/4, pp. 307-325
An environmentalist's outlook is typically claimed to be based on or even constituted by sound science. It would be natural then for a version of economics based on such insights to claim to be 'even more' scientific than traditional economics. I argue for a conclusion radically opposed to this....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816831
Cover Image
Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism
Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2013
utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and towards post-welfarist approaches is the following. Utility is defi-ned normatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821180
Cover Image
The valuation of decision and individual welfare: a Humean approach
Lapidus, Andre - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 17 (2010) 1, pp. 1-28
Drawing on passages in Book II of the Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), in the Dissertation on the Passions (1757), and in some of the Essays (1777), this paper is built upon Hume's distinction between three alternative valuations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008609693
Cover Image
Joint production and price uncertainty: hypothesis tests
Alghalith, Moawia - In: Brussels Economic Review 49 (2006) 3, pp. 265-274
This paper extends the existing estimation methods to allow empirical estimation and hypothesis testing under joint production and price uncertainty. Our approach modifies and expands the use of duality theory. Furthermore, our approach does not require the specification or estimation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008573888
Cover Image
Theorem of existence of ruptures in probability scale. Preliminary short version.
Harin, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The theorems of existence of the ruptures have been proved. The ruptures can exist near the borders of finite intervals and of the probability scale. The theorems can be used, e.g., in economics and forecasting.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574286
Cover Image
Теорема о существовании разрывов в шкале вероятностей. II.
Harin, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The theorem of existence of ruptures in the probability scale has been proved. The theorem can be used, e.g., in economics and forecasting. It can assist to solve paradoxes such as Allais paradox and the “four-fold-pattern” paradox and to create the correcting formula of forecasting.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577644
Cover Image
A Utility-Based Diffusion Model Applied to the Digital Camera Case
Orbach, Yair; Fruchter, Gila E. - In: Review of Marketing Science 8 (2010) 1, pp. 1-1
product lifecycle, pre-launch. Market growth is driven by product's utility increase due to technology evolution, while firms … utility increase and market growth makes the problem inherently dynamic. To find the dependency of utility increase on market … product's utility, we use data collected by a conjoint study. The ability to collect and interpret data about both demand and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008579409