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Implementation of a Traceability and Certification System for Non-genetically Modified Soybeans: The Experience of Imcopa Co. in Brazil
Pelaez, Victor Manoel; Aquino, Dayani; Hofmann, Ruth; … - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 13 (2010) 1
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The role of perceived costs and perceived benefits in the relationship between personality and risk-related choices
Soane, Emma; Dewberry, Chris; Narendran, Sunitha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper considers how perceptions of costs and benefits can influence the association between personality and risky choice behaviour. We assessed perceptions and behaviours in six domains (ethical; investment; gambling; health and safety; recreational; social) using the DOSPERT and measured...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Skinner, Jonathan S. - American Enterprise Institute
Do saving incentives such as Individual Retirement Accounts stimulate new saving or merely reshuffle existing assets?
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Teleworking Survey
Claudiu, Chiru; Iulia, Grecu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series X (2010) 1, pp. 580-583
This paper examines teleworking, a modern concept, more and more present in the work relationships in our society. We will review some introductive elements, the evolution, the current status of telewoking in Europe and US and the development of teleworking in Romania.
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Skinner, Jonathan S. - American Enterprise Institute
Do saving incentives such as Individual Retirement Accounts stimulate new saving or merely reshuffle existing assets?
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895353
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How (not) to Lie with Benefit-Cost Analysis
Farrow, Scott - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2013
Benefit-cost analysis is seen by some as a controversial activity in which the analyst can significantly bias the … results. This note highlights some of the ways that analysts can "lie" in a benefit-cost analysis but more importantly …
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A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Student Support Services Program
Pacchetti, Ed M. - 2009
ABSTRACTTitle of Document: A BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAMEd M. Pacchetti, Doctor of … generation students who have not participated in the SSS program. Applying a methodology used in other benefit-cost analyses of … that benefit-cost analysis should be one of many measures used to evaluate SSS projects and determine program success. …
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Einschlagstopp in alten, naturnahen Buchenwäldern im öffentlichen Besitz: Definition, Vorkommen, Inventur-Kennzahlen, Gefährdung und ökonomische Bewertung
Bolte, Andreas; Kroiher, Franz; Rock, Joachim; Dieter, … - 2022
Der Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung sieht vor, dass der Einschlag in alten, naturnahen Buchenwäldern im öffentlichen Besitz gestoppt werden soll (SPD/Grüne/FDP 2021, Zeile 1219-1220). Im vorliegenden Thünen Working Paper werde für alte, naturnahe Buchenwälder mögliche Definitionen...
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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cashflow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias …
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The transfer space
Friedrich, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
considerations and the benefit must always exceed the cost to maintain a stable system. This hypothesis explains observations from … called exploitation. The outcome depends on the relation between fix cost, variable cost, productivity and affinity. Brute … force and educational conditioning used by the sink take advantage of emotions to hide the real size of cost in exploitation …
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