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Women or children? Intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2007

In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children’s expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children’s goods in a twoadult...

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Conditionality and fragility in long-term financial contracts

Bougheas, Spiros; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2007

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations while international organizations condition future loans on the implementation of some policy conditions. We build an agency model that accounts for...

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Über die Natur und das Wesen des Geldes: Johann Heinrich von Thünens unveröffentlichter Beitrag zur Geldtheorie

Nellinger, Ludwig - 2009

questions and preparing Thünen's theory of capital and interest. Thünen starts his analysis with a description of the … extended quantity theory of money by introducing the velocity of money transactions and formulating the correct algebraic … twentieth century and from the perspective of modern monetary theory, Thünen's drafts are an unexpected discovery and of …

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A technical note on comparative dynamics in a fiscal competition model

Becker, Daniel Thomas - 2008

This note discusses the comparative dynamic analysis in 'Fiscal competition in space and time' by David Wildas in (Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, 2003) from a technical point of view.

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Does signaling work in markets for information services? An empirical investigation for insurance intermediaries in Germany

Eckardt, Martina - 2007

instruments work as credible signals. Our findings confirm the main hypotheses derived from signaling theory as to the poor …

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Unter welchen Bedingungen fördert die Riester-Förderung? Eine theoretische Analyse unter simultaner Einbeziehung von Kosten- und Steuereffekten

Stahl, Silvana; Stahl, Stefan; Kasch, Philipp - 2012

Die Riester geförderten Produkte erlebten kürzlich das zehnjährige Jubiläum. Bisherige Analysen über die Vorteilhaftigkeit bezogen sich in der Regel auf Teilaspekte: entweder nur die Kosten- oder nur die Steuereffekte wurden untersucht. Ergebnis der Teilanalysen sind sich widersprechende...

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Safety-first portfolio optimization: Fixed versus random target

Singer, Nico - 2010

This paper analyzes the safety-first portfolio model under two different target assumptions, the fixed target, which is commonly assumed in the literature, and the random target, which has played only a minor role so far. As both targets can be easily motivated, the open question is, which...

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Zur Herleitung der Thünen'schen Grabsteinformel

Nellinger, Ludwig - 2011

In Abhandlungen von Dorfman und Samuelson 1986 und van Suntum 1988 wird Thünen's berühmte Grabsteinformel unter Berücksichtigung seiner spezifischen Annahmen bestätigt. Allerdings wird Thüenen's Vorgehen zur Erzielung dieses Ergebnisses bis heute kontrovers diskutiert. Mit diesem Papier...

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Immobilienverzehrprodukte: Potenzielle Profiteure und Nachfragehemmnisse

Maier, Andreas - 2010

In der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Literatur wird das ökonomische Potenzial von Immobilienverzehrprodukten vielseitig diskutiert. Obwohl diesen Produkten aus wohlfahrts-theoretischen Gesichtspunkten eine hohe Bedeutung beigemessen wird, zeigt die empirische Evidenz, dass die Nachfrage weit...

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When do we have borrower or credit volume rationing in competitive credit market with imperfect information?

Kraus, Daniel - 2010

This paper examines the conditions for credit volume or borrower rationing in a competitive credit market in which the project characteristics are private information of the borrowers. There can only be credit volume rationing if the higher-risk credit applicants have a higher return in the...

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