terms, 'efficiency consumption' is introduced theoretically as a means for securing an income (consumer investment). It is …, but neither microeconomics nor consumption sociology even discuss it as a motive for consumption. After defining some key … voluntary only for pioneers: Via social diffusion processes innovative consumption goods are transformed from a welcome …

Bereits vor dem 11. September 2001 wurde damit begonnen, Finanzmittel als Instrument im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus … terroristischer Gruppen einzuschränken. Allerdings gibt es wenig fundierte Untersuchungen der Wirksamkeit der gegen den Terrorismus …

stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the … stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s and find that the stagnation of household disposable income, the decline in …

total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …. Thus, investment in intangibles was considerable in 2004. The corresponding figures for the UK and the US were 10.9 and 13 …

recognizing that firms make substantial investment in intangible assets such as R&D, design, advertising etc. These investments … are not classified as investment in the National Accounts, where only tangible assets are defined as investment. This … paper provides estimates of investment in intangible assets and uses the growth accounting framework to analyze the Swedish …

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between financial liberalization on the one hand and saving, investment … investment (although there are some signs to believe that liberalization may actually reduce rather than increase domestic saving …), whereas it is positively associated with private investment, as well as with per capita GDP growth. We find a negative …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …

focus on the effect of such shocks on investment. We examine two polar cases; an economy in which agents have unconstrained …

The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism …