Paternalism, the interference with a person, against their will, for her own good, has longbeen held in disregard. Yet recently, new arguments for paternalistic governmentinterventions have been proposed. These arguments draw on two premises. First, theproposed paternalism is characterised as...

We present two new notions of evolutionary stability, the trulyevolutionarily stable state (TESS) and the generalized evolutionarilystable equilibrium (GESE). The GESE generalizes the evolutionar-ily stable equilibrium (ESE) of Joosten [1996]. An ESE attracts allnearby trajectories...

As people become richer they get the opportunity of consuming more but also qualitativelybetter goods. This holds for a basic commodity like food as well. We investigatefood consumption in Russia, taking into account both expenditure and nutrition value interms of calories. We analyze how food...

Extrinsic motivations like intellectual property protections and fiscalincentives continue to occupy the centre stage in debates on innovationpolicies. Joseph Schumpeter had, however, argued that the motive toaccumulate private property can only explain part of innovative activities. Inhis view,...

Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives. In addition, a follow-up question is used to investigate whether respondents ignored any attributes when responding. The resulting information is used in the model estimation by...

In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...