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Energieeffizienzpotenziale und staatlicher Lenkungsbedarf

Dobroschke, Stephan - 2012

Die langfristigen Klimaschutzziele sehen bis zum Jahr 2020 im Vergleich zu 2008 eine Senkung des Primärenergieverbrauchs um 20% vor, bis zum Jahr 2050 wird eine Senkung um 50% angestrebt. Zur Erreichung dieser Ziele stehen zunehmend Maßnahmen zur Steigerung nachfrageseitiger Energieeffizienz...

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Interactions in the New Keynesian DSGE models: The Boltzmann-Gibbs machine and social networks approach

Chen, Shu-heng; Chang, Chia-ling - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-26, pp. 1-32

The BoltzmannGibbs distribution is currently widely used in economic modeling. One of the applications is integrated with the DSGE (Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium) model. However, a question that arises concerns whether the BoltzmannGibbs distribution can be directly applied, without...

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Fund managers - Why the best might be the worst: On the evolutionary vigor of risk-seeking behavior

Witte, Björn-Christopher - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-24, pp. 1-29

This article explores the influence of competitive conditions on the evolutionary fitness of different risk preferences … capital invested in a risky asset and the amount of excessive risk accepted, where a positive value of the latter parameter … conditions on investment behavior and attitudes towards risk is significant. What is alarming is that intense competitive …

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Psychophysical interpretation for utility measures

He, Yuqing - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-29, pp. 1-35

the description of commodity choice and the power law for risk choice. The further mathematical demonstration indicates …

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Debt, deleveraging and business cycles: An agent-based perspective

Raberto, Marco; Teglio, Andrea; Cincotti, Silvano - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-27, pp. 1-49

The recent financial crises pointed out the central role of public and private debt in modern economies. However, even if debt is a recurring topic in discussions about the current economic situation, economic modeling does not take into account debt as one of the crucial determinants of...

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Heterogeneous skills and homogeneous land: Segmentation and agglomeration

Wrede, Matthias - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of skill heterogeneity on regional patterns of production and housing in the presence of pecuniary externalities within a general-equilibrium framework, assuming monopolistic competition in intermediate goods markets. It shows that the interplay of heterogeneous...

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Which mode of funding developing countries' climate policies under the post-Kyoto framework?

Heuson, Clemens; Peters, Wolfgang; Schwarze, Reimund; … - 2012

Funding developing countries' climate policies after Cancun (COP16) has a dual goal: firstly, to support mitigation of developing countries in order to sustain the two-degree pathway of stabilising the global mean temperature; secondly, to empower the vulnerable countries in low-income regions to...

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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset and endogenous dynamics

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012

network. When the risk involved in participating in a cooperation agreement is incorporated, the propensity to enter an …

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On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism

Kesten, Onur; Kurino, Morimitsu - 2012

-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications …-proposing deferred acceptance-Mechanismus (DA) spielt eine zentrale Rolle nicht nur in der Theorie sondern auch in wichtigen praktischen …

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A conceptual framework for measuring airline business model convergence

Daft, Jost; Albers, Sascha - 2012

This paper develops a measurement framework that synthesizes the airline and strategy literature to identify relevant dimensions and elements of airline business models. The applicability of this framework for describing airline strategies and structures and, based on this conceptualization, for...

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