In this article we study the implication of thresholds in preferences. To model this we extend the basic model of John and Pecchenino (1994) by allowing the current level of environmental quality to have a discrete impact on how an agent trades o ff future consumption and environmental quality....

Mit der aktuellen fünften Version ("COBIT 5") wurden grundlegende Erweiterungen und Änderungen des COBIT-Frameworks vorgenommen. Inwieweit sich dies auf das IT-Compliance-Verständnis und das Management von IT-Compliance ausgewirkt hat, wird in diesem Arbeitspapier untersucht. Hierzu werden...

We consider (cooperative) linear production games with a continuum of players. The coalitional function is generated by r + 1 "production factors" that is, non atomic measures defined on an interval. r of these are orthogonal probabilities which, economically, can be considered as "cornered"...