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Theft and Deterrence
Harbaugh, William T.; Mocan, Naci; Visser, Michael S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...
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RISK DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION VS. THE ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES OF FINANCING THE COMPLEX RESOURCES-ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT NETWORK WORKING IN AN INTEGRATIVE-REGENERATIVE INDUSTRIAL ECONOM...
Predescu, Iuliana; Piciu, Gabriela Cornelia - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 5 (2010) 4-1, pp. 89-96
The problem of financing the complex resources-economy-environment network working in an integrative-regenerative industrial economy is a derivation of the fact either the above-mentioned network intents to minimize the costs of the aftermath of pollution, or to capitalize on new and ‘green’...
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Les éleveurs dans la gestion des menaces sanitaires globales : les éleveurs vietnamiens et la grippe aviaire
Figuié, M.; Desvaux, S. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2011
considers H5N1 as a zoonotic risk and a pandemic threat which asks for emergency tools, H5N1 is framed by the farmers of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145640
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Large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve: did they work?
Gagnon, Joseph; Raskin, Matthew; Remache, Julie; Sack, Brian - In: Economic Policy Review (2011) May, pp. 41-59
In this study, authors Joseph Gagnon, Matthew Raskin, Julie Remache and Brian Sack review the Federal Reserve’s experience with implementing the LSAPs between late 2008 and March 2010. They explain that the target fed funds rate was set as low as possible in December 2008. Thus, to further...
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Risk Algisinin Marka Sadakatine Etkisi: Cep Telefonlari Kategorisinde Bir Uygulama
DEMIR, Mehmet Ozer - In: Ege Academic Review 11 (2011) 2, pp. 267-276
, benzer sekilde, tuketicilerin risk algilari ile marka sadakati arasindaki iliski incelenmektedir. Cep telefonlari uzerine … yapilan arastirma, Antalya ili sinirlari icerisinde gerceklestirilmistir. Sonuclar tuketicilerin risk algilarinin marka … sadakati uzerinde etkisi oldugunu, ancak her risk algisinin ayni duzeyde etkili olmadigini ortaya koymaktadir. …
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Anticipated regret and self-esteem in the Allais paradox
PETIT, Emmanuel; TCHERKASSOF, Anna; GASSMANN, Xavier - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2011
Our experiment aims at studying the impact of self-esteem on risk-prone choices in an Allais-type decision context … two different risk-based options. Our data confirm our hypothesis. Regarding risky choices preferences, we also observe … complete theory of decision-making under risk should introduce both situational and motivational explanations of individual …
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Ethnic heterogeneity and the probability of technological disasters
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to examine how ethnic heterogeneity affects the probability of technological disasters. Estimation results showed that ethnic heterogeneity increased the probability of technological disasters.
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How risky is the German pension system? The volatility of the internal rates of return
Heidler, Matthias; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und … - 2005
In this paper we analyze exemplarily the volatility of the internal rates of return of the German pension system over the life-cycle of an individual born in 1957. The outcome is compared to an alternative defined-contribution or defined-benefit policy. Based on the actual data, our results show...
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Mobility, Taxation and Welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...
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Consistencia de la evaluación de desempeño de inversiones financieras: Pruebas de dominación estocástica versus índices media-varianza
Pinto, Cristian F.; Acuña, Andres A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we analize the consistency of financial indexes and the ordering of investments based on the mean-variance and the stochastic dominance (SD) approaches. We take 47 mutual funds from the Chilean financial market in order to compute several algorithms that enable us to verify...
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