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Approaching the Agora - Determinants of Scientists' Intentions to Purse Academic Entrepreneurship

Goethner, Maximilian; Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study investigates predictors of scientists' intentions to commercialize their research through business founding. Analyzing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we develop and test an intentions-based model of academic entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual...

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Technology, Competition and the Time of Entry: Diversification Patterns in the Development of New Drugs

Plotnikova, Tatiana - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of R&D diversification strategies in the drug industry. It enriches the existing literature by proposing to look at diversification factors, which reflect market and technological proximity of an R&D project towards other projects within a...

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Applying a nonparametric efficiency analysis to measure conversion efficiency in Great Britain

Binder, Martin; Brökel, Tom - 2009

In the literature on Sen’s capability approach, studies focussing on the empirical measurement of conversion factors are comparatively rare. We add to this field by adopting a measure of “conversion efficiency” that captures the efficiency with which individuals convert their re-sources...

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Some considerations regarding the problem of multidimensional utility

Binder, Martin - 2009

The concept of "utility" is often used in ambiguous ways in economics, from having substantive psychological connotations to being a formal placeholder representing a person's preferences. In the accounts of the early utilitarians, it was a multidimensional measure that has been condensed during...

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European Policies towards Palm Oil – Sorting Out some Facts

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009

This paper analyses the role of palm oil and its sustainability from different perspectives. We consider the role of palm oil within the GHG context. We discuss the impact of palm oil on biodiversity and analyse how palm oil can contribute to economic growth and development in tropical...

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How norms can generate conflict

Winter, Fabian; Rauhut, Heiko; Helbing, Dirk - 2009

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2009 – 087 How norms can generate conflict by Fabian … Winter Heiko Rauhut Dirk Helbing www.jenecon.de ISSN 1864-7057 The JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS is a … game, strat- egy method, equity 1 Jena Economic Research Papers 2009 - 087 Many of our daily activities are governed by …

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Understanding the two components of risk attitudes : an experimental analysis

Qiu, Jianying; Steiger, Eva-Maria - 2009

Economics and management science share the tradition of ordering risk aversion by ï¬tting the best expected utility (EU) model with a certain utility function to individual data, and then using the utility curvature for each individual as the sole index of risk attitude. (Cumulative) Prospect...

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Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2009

Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives. In addition, a follow-up question is used to investigate whether respondents ignored any attributes when responding. The resulting information is used in the model estimation by...

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Bidding in common value fair division games : the winner’s curse or even worse?

Becker, Alice; Brünner, Tobias - 2009

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2009 – 090 Bidding in common value fair division games: The winner ….de, Phone: +49-69-798 34831. Jena Economic Research Papers 2009 - 090 1 Introduction Auctions and fair division games are used … private values. Güth, Ivanova- 2 Jena Economic Research Papers 2009 - 090 Stenzel, Königstein, and Strobel (2002, 2005 …

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Accuracy, unbiasedness and efficiency of professional macroeconomic forecasts : an empirical comparison for the G7

Dovern, Jonas; Weisser, Johannes - 2009

In this paper, we use survey data to analyze the accuracy, unbiasedness, and the efficiency of professional macroeconomic forecasts. We analyze a large panel of individual forecasts that has not been analyzed in the literature so far. We provide evidence on the properties of forecasts for all G7...

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