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The half and the full debt cycle

Author(s) : Siebert, Horst
Description :
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

Mehr Arbeitsplätze durch Umweltschutz?

Author(s) : Klodt, Henning
Description :
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : German

The economics of entrepreneurship : what we know and what we don't

Author(s) : Parker, Simon C.
Description : This introductory, non-technical, article offers a reflective overview of what Economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a toolbox of methods to answer them. First, I wil...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

Variable selection for discrimination of more than two classes where data are sparse

Description : In classification, with an increasing number of variables, the required number of observations grows drastically. In this paper we present an approach to put into effect the maximal possible variable selection, by splitting a K class classification problem into pairwise problems. The principle makes...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

Manufacturer Liability for Harms Caused by Consumers to Others

Description : This paper investigates whether manufacturers should be liable if consumers, through the use of a product, cause harm to others. If consumers have deep pockets then consumeronly liability is socially desirable. With consumer insolvency, however, consumer-only liability leads to inadequate consumer p...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

An Elementary Rigorous Introduction to Exact Sampling

Description : We introduce coupling from the past, a recently developed method for exact sampling from a given distribution. Focus is on rigour and thorough proofs. We stay on an elementary level which requires little or no prior knowledge from probability theory. This should fill an obvious gap between innumerab...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

Foul or Fair?

Author(s) : Puhani, Patrick A.
Description : This paper gives a short overview of Monte Carlo studies on the usefulness of Heckman?s (1976, 1979) two?step estimator for estimating a selection model. It shows that exploratory work to check for collinearity problems is strongly recommended before deciding on which estimator to apply. In the abse...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

Zum Begriff der Regulierung: Gegenstand, Träger und Methoden

Description : Regulation has been and still is often discussed in economic theory and politics. Despite this, papers analyzing regulatory measures lack a definition of the term or employ widely differing concepts. In order to remedy this neglect, we give a short survey of various definitions of regulation. Thereu...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : German

Temptation-driven preferences

Description : My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe.” Saint Paul What behavior can be explained using the hypothesis that the agent faces temptation but is otherwise a standard rational agent”? In earlier work, GulPesendorfer [2001] use a s...
Repository : EconStor
Language(s) : English

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