Das Verhalten in Entscheidungssituationen ist nach SCHADE und STEUL (1998: 7) von den Komponenten Risikoeinstellung, Risikowahrnehmung und Ergebniswahrnehmung bestimmt. Während Risikoeinstellung und Ergebniswahrnehmung in der psychologischen und experimentellen Entscheidungsforschung eine...

Die regulatorischen Aktivitäten des Staates werden oftmals mit dem Vorliegen von Marktversagen begründet. Diese Perspektive ist allerdings zu eng und vernachlässigt das Auftreten von Staatsversagen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht staatliche Eingriffe aus einer verhaltensökonomischen...

The impact of export restrictions on market uncertainty has not been investigated before. This paper analyses the development of price volatility in the Ukrainian wheat market characterized by export restrictions during the commodity price peaks 2007/08 and 2010/11 within a dynamic conditional...

Four out of every five women in Uganda are employed in agriculture, according to the 2008 Gender and Productivity Survey (GPS) in Uganda (EPRC, 2009); and 42 percent of women in the labour force are unpaid family workers—receiving no income despite contributing the largest proportion of the...

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This paper studies the role of speculators in explaining agricultural commodity price movements. The spikes in global agricultural commodity prices in 2007-2008 and 2010 2011 have opened a debate on the contribution of speculation to recent food price volatility. Most academic literature does...

In the period of transformation significant changes in the structure of income sources of population in Poland have been observed. The most important ones are a fall in the share of salaries and an increased role of social transfers as a main source of incomes. These tendencies were especially...

The role of the channel coordinator and the structure of their supply chains are critical to the success of a supply chain that produces a product targeted at a specific market niche. Without the management of the channel coordinator, focussed on delivering a product with specific attributes to...

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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