In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...

Individuals exhibit a randomization preference if they prefer random mix-tures of two bets to each of the involved bets. Such preferences provide thefoundation of various models of uncertainty aversion. However, it has to ourknowledge not been empirically investigated whether uncertainty-averse...

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions betweenendogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging.Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and howpopulation aging aects the relative scarcity of factors of production,...

This paper deals with the modeling of the relationship of European Union Al-lowance spot- and futures-prices within the second commitment period of the Eu-ropean Union Emission Trading Scheme. Based on high frequency data, we analyzecausality in the ¯rst and the second conditional moments. To...

This paper explores the relationship between dynamic consistency and theexisting notions of unambiguous events for Choquet expected utility preferences.A decision maker is faced with an information structure represented bya filtration. We show that the decision maker’s preferences respect...

Two rationality arguments are used to justify the link between condi-tional and unconditional preferences in decision theory: dynamic consistencyand consequentialism. Dynamic consistency requires that ex ante contingentchoices are respected by updated preferences. Consequentialism states...

It is difficult to disagree with Vernon Smith's (2010) assessment of thestate of the art in experimental economics. It is informed by the experienceof someone who was there, right at the beginning of experimental economics.Some of the problems he discusses, like the frequent failure of backward...

Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analysedriving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political “30-hectares-goal” is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major drivingforces for...

This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model topredict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature bymodeling the endogenous location of open space. The article compares open spacedecisions made under a majority-rules...

This paper employs the unrestricted extended constant conditional correlationGARCH specification proposed in Conrad and Karanasos (2008) to examine theintertemporal relationship between the uncertainties of in°ation and output growthin the US. We find that inflation uncertainty effects output...