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An Economic Analysis of Household Waste Management
Choe, Chongwoo; Fraser, Iain - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 1997
This paper provides a comprehensive model of household waste management policy with three interacting parties: a firm, a household and an environmental regulator. The regulator chooses the environmental tax, the household waste collection charge, monitoring of illegal waste disposal by the...
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College admissions and the role of information: An experimental study
Pais, Joana; Pintér, Agnes; Veszteg, Róbert F. - 2008
experimental lab in three different informational settings, and study the role of information in individual decision making. Our … truthful preference revelation. In addition, we find that information has an important effect on truthful behavior and … stability. Nevertheless, regarding efficiency, the Gale-Shapley mechanism is less sensitive to the amount of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332350
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Feedback and incentives: experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268675
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The benefit of information reduction for trading strategies
Schittenkopf, Christian; Dorffner, Georg; Tiňo, Peter - 2000
Motivated by previous findings that discretization of financial time series can effectively filter the data and reduce the noise, this experimental study compares the trading performance of predictive models based on different modelling paradigms in a realistic setting. Different methods ranging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841653
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Anreize und Privatheit bei modernen Monitoring Technologien: das Beispiel der Kfz-Versicherungsvertr?ge
Filipova-Neumann, Lilia - 2008
to collect, process, and share information about their own status and about their environment, has attained a high degree … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of … gain relevance. The comprehensiveness of collected pieces of information which can be stored arbitrarily long and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482327
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The citizen, the administration and community law
Söderman, Jacob - Europäische Union / Europäischer Bürgerbeauftragter
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009638265
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Evaluation of IPA Information & Communication Programmes : Evaluation Report ; Volume I
Kacapor-Dzihic, Zehra; Mijacic, Dragisa; Bunt, Pam van de - 2016
Kosovo (EUOK) in improving the programming and implementation of information and communication (IC) Programmes funded by … 2015-2020 assistance, taking into consideration the lessons learned and the performance of past IPA information and … for the enlargement process. However, a strengthening of the strategic approach to information and communication would be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799481
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Information and communication technologies and human rights
Horner, Lisa; Hawtin, Dixie; Puddephatt, Andrew - 2010
The rapid evolution of information and communications technology (ICT) and associated digital communications over the … to enhance collaboration and information sharing; censorship circumvention technologies allow people to bypass attempts … to monitor and control information and communication flows. However, as well as unleashing tremendous new opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902441
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Senegalesische Corona-Songs als Sensibilisierungs- und Informationsquelle für wolofsprachige Geflüchtete und Migrant*innen
Stier, Julia - In: Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung 4 (2020) 1, pp. 131-148
During the Corona pandemic, access to reliable information is particularly relevant in order to be able to take … protective measures. However, migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries often lack such access to information …. This opens the opportunity for alternative sources of raising awareness and information. Corona Songs about COVID-19 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692487
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Information, Polarization and Delegation in Democracy
Schultz, Christian - 2003
have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320914