Nach wie vor bestimmen Landwirte ihr Produktionsprogramm ohne Einsatz expliziter Optimierungsmodelle. Dabei werden insbesondere Preis- und Ertragsunsicherheiten nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt. Eine realitätsgetreue Berücksichtigung der Unsicherheit hinsichtlich der Einzeldeckungsbeiträge...

This book brings together contributions of a distinguished panel of regulators as well as lawyers and economists from both academia and industry to present their insights on the digital convergence phenomenon in the telecommunications industry. The contributions cover a great deal of the...

The international conference "Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) 2006" aims at bringing together researchers in the areas of Group Decisions, Negotiations, and Negotiation Support Systems. Participants share a common research focus on complex decision problems, which involve multiple...

A new mechanism that substantially mitigates social dilemmas is examined theoretically and experimentally. It resembles the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) except that in each decision round subjects are ranked and then grouped according to their public contribution. The game has multiple...

According to theory a pure meritocracy is efficient because individual members are competitively rewarded according to their individual contributions to society. However, purely individually based meritocracies seldom occur. We introduce a new model of social production called “team-based...

Prof. Dr. Martin Odening, Holger Blisse,Dr. Markus Hanisch, Dr. Norbert Hirschauer von der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, und Prof. Dr. Jost W. Kramer von der Fachhochschule Wismar analysieren den derzeitigen Stand der Ratingsysteme für die Agrarunternehmen und zeigen, mit welchen...

In this paper we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germany using different pricing methods, among them Burn Analysis, Index Value Simulation and Daily Simulation. For that purpose we develop a daily precipitation model. Moreover, a decorrelation analysis is...

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The objective of this paper is to investigate the performance of different VaR models in the context of risk assessment in hog production. Potential pitfalls of traditional VaR models are pinpointed and proposals to solve them are analyzed. After a brief description these methods are used to...