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Über abstrakte Charakterisierungen von Bisimulation
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Roggenbach, Markus
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Bisimulation wurde von Milner (1980) und Park (1981) auf Transitionssystemen eingefuehrt, um Prozesse zu identifizieren, die aus Sicht eines externen Beobachters nicht zu unterscheiden sind. Ausgehend von dieser Idee werden neue Bisimulationsbegriffe auch auf anderen Modellen parallelen Rechnens bet...
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Simultane Erstellung von Flugplänen mit Genetischen Algorithmen : Konzeptioneller Planungsansatz und Entwicklung eines Prototypen
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Algorithmus , Flugplanung
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Unemployment, Technology and the Welfare Effects of Immigration
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Kemnitz, Alexander
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This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfare of natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure. ...
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Funding, Competition and Quality in Higher Education
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Kemnitz, Alexander
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This paper explores the impact of university finance reforms on teaching quality. It is shown that the graduate tax can achieve efficiency with tuition fees administered by the government, while student grants, pure and income contingent loans are bound to fail. All options are inefficient when univ...
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Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment
Author(s) :
Conrad, Klaus
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Increasing environmental awareness may affect the pleasure of consuming a good for which an environmental friendly substitute is available. When deciding to buy differentiated products, a compromise is sometimes made between preferred characteristics of the good and its environmental properties. In ...
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Stable Solutions to Homogeneous Difference : Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients
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In economic reality, reactions to external shocks often come with a delay. On the other hand, agents try to anticipate future developments. Both can lead to difference-differential equations with an advancing argument. These are more difficult to handle than either difference or differential equatio...
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Capital Accumulation, Factor Prices and Endogenous Labor-Saving Technical Change
Author(s) :
Irmen, Andreas
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The process of capital accumulation understood as a rise in the capitallabor ratio steadily raises the scarcity of labor with respect to capital. This movement in relative factor prices may act as an incentive for profit-maximizing firms to direct innovations towards labor saving technologies. We ma...
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Rentenfinanzierung und intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit : Eine wachstumstheoretische Perspektive
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht, welche normativen Schlüsse sich vor dem Hintergrund der Ergebnisse der endogenen Wachstumstheorie im Hinblick auf die Finanzierung und Ausgestaltung der öffentlichen Alterssicherung ziehen lassen. Der Gang der Untersuchung erfolgt in zwei Schritten. Im ersten Schr...
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Aging and International Capital Flows
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Throughout the world, population aging is a major challenge that will continue well into the 21st century. While the patterns of the demographic transition are similar in most countries, timing differs substantially, in particular between industrialized and less developed countries. To the extent th...
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The Influence of Elections on Compliance with World Bank Conditionality and IMF Program Interruptions
Author(s) :
Dreher, Axel
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Using panel data, this paper tries to explain compliance with World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs around election dates in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank conditionality is lower in election years and pre-election years. Using a proxy for IMF progra...
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