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Optimal diet selection by white-tailed deer: Balancing reproduction with starvation risk
Schmitz, Oswald J. - 1992
Energy intake rates of wintering deer vary over time because of variation in the abundance and quality of their natural foods. Accordingly, there is a chance that energy requirements will not be satisfied in a feeding period. This is especially critical because deer are reproductive during...
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Kombilohn oder Mindestlohn? : eine Untersuchung anhand eines Arbeitsmarktmodells mit monopsonistischer Konkurrenz
Bleibtreu, Christopher - 2008
wird die Wirkung beider Instrumente auf die Nutzen der Arbeitnehmer und auf die gesamtwirschaftliche Wohlfahrt analysiert … können die Nutzen der Arbeitnehmer und die Beschäftigung im Vergleich zum Referenzfall ohne Eingriff erhöhen. Die Einführung … intervention serves as basing point.Minimum wages as well as wage subsidies can increase employment and the utility of the workers …
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Die Verarbeitung von Gewinn- und Verlusterfahrungen in spezifischen Entscheidungs- und Spielsituationen
Schröder, Andreas - 2008
as well as descriptive decision and game theory have not provided yet a thorough theoretical treatment of these effects …
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Risk Preferences Beyond Expected Utility Theory: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
R?ger, Maximilian - 2011
preferences beyond the classical concept of expected utility theory. The thesis contains four main chapters.The first two chapters … dependence compared to classical models of expected utility theory. It is shown that some empirical puzzles concerning … reference-dependent preferences to anticipatory utility. A new model of multi-attribute utility in this context is developed and …
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The market for preferences
Earl, PE; Potts, J - 2004
's specialised knowledge and decision rules. …
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Is there a role for transaction cost economics if we view firms as complex adaptive systems?
Foster, J. - 2000
, which deals with decision making in contexts that are presumed to be simple and, therefore, disconnected from complex …
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Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations
Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; … - 2007
Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated with the individual’s time preference, no prior study has been done to empirically support or refute such predictions. By collecting detailed measures of health, time...
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Practice-induced theory reduction in accounting; evolutionary biology, history and the interdisciplinary base
Aiken, M; Gowland, D - 2010
This article induces the pragmatic structure of what financial reporting can be ? it does not deduce what financial reporting should be. Empirical studies can show that opportunism is not a feature generally of financial accounting in practice, but challenges exist in the post-Enron era. One...
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Zufriedenheit und relatives Einkommen: Eine empirische Analyse von inter- und intrapersonellen Einkommensvergleichen aus ?konomischer Perspektive
Wunder, Christoph - 2009
diesem Gebiet l?sst dabei Zweifel an der Pr?misse der Nutzentheorie aufkommen, dass ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen … Verbrauchsmengen und Nutzen besteht. Dieses als Paradox der Zufriedenheit (happiness paradox) bezeichnete Ph?nomen wird damit erkl … Vollzeiterwerbst?tigen in den Mittelpunkt. Ausgehend von einer Nutzenfunktion, die neben dem Einfluss des absoluten Einkommens auch den …
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