AW: subsidies for renewable energies and the environment

2001-11-12 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Thatswhy my suggestiv question: Is there a sufficient reason for renewable energy subsidies? Steffen

AW: subsidies for renewable energies and the environment

2001-11-16 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
How did you arrive at this conclusion? It seems to me that if you lower the cost of renewable resources, that will result in less exhaustable resources being extracted, since some of the exhaustable resources that could previously be extracted profitably would now remain in the ground. I think

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-26 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
I think you can`t unlink both factors (genes/womb and country) because genetic defects and growth of embryo are partly affected by social and environmental circumstances of the country, carciogenic pollution and food, malnutrition or physical stress of the mother (hard work, etc.). Thatswhy I

RE: drink prices

2002-02-04 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Why do people not reject decisions, which with hindsight are unfavourable? The drink order paradox seems to be similar to the subject of following paper: Illusion of Expertise in Portfolio Decisions: An Experimental Approach GERLINDE FELLNER, WERNER GUETH, BORIS MACIEJOVSKY ABSTRACT:

RE: entropy and sustainability

2002-04-09 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
JP wrote: Actually, no, here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out, making all research into stainability and environmental / resource economics a waste of time. There's an obvious connection to entropy right there. -JP As long as environmental and resource economics

RE: In Praise of Pay Toilets

2002-05-29 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
I think it is good example for bundling or vertical integration. Like a free Microsoft Internet Explorer (see S. Landsburgs Slate column) the buyer is better off, if the seller offers two complementary goods like meals and toilets in a bundle than a seperate offer. If you are in a restaurant

Credit rationing

2002-06-26 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear armchairs, i'm looking for a current review of capital market imperfection as an infant industry argument. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks, Steffen

Textbook Econometrics

2002-07-23 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear armchairs, I'm looking for a comprehensible and practical textbook in econometrics (beginners up to intermediate level)for self-study. Can you give me some recommendations. Thanks! Steffen

Environmental and economic effects of Speed Limits

2002-08-10 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear Armchairs, I'm looking for recent studies of environmental and economic effects of speed limits. Who knows something about that topic? Steffen

Instruments for Traffic Policy

2002-10-04 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear Armchairs, I'm looking for a source of information about market instruments for traffic policy. Do you know experts, papers, books or web ressources about this topic? Thanks! Steffen - Steffen

Bottle Deposits

2002-11-21 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear Armchairs, in germany we have a fierce political disput about efficency and environmental effectivity of legal imposition of bottle deposits. The government prefers a refund system and get support of regional breweries. But nationwide softdrink suppliers without a running refund systems

Absolute vs. relative income level

2003-07-23 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear armchairs, i think there is a at least partial contradiction between the hypothesis of diminishing marginal return of income and the hypothesis that people care about consuming more than their neighbors or about earning more than their neighbors (Frank: Luxury Fever). If the latter is

AW: Absolute vs. relative income level

2003-07-24 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
This does not contradict diminishing marginal utility. DMU proposes that for a given good, after some amount, extra amounts yield ever diminishing extra utility. My use of contradiction was misleading. Here I have no dissent to Fred. If a particular threshold of income is needed in

The cconomics of heating

2003-08-26 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
David Friedman did in his webbed version of Price Theory a interesting piece of work about the economics of heating and a optimal rental fee with heating subsidies (Ch. 21: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_1st_Edn_Ch21/PThy_1st_Edn_Chap_21.html). But he pointed out,

paying for blood donations

2004-02-23 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear armchairs, charitable organisations claim that paying for blood donations could worsen the situation because it mostly attracts people from high risk groups (junkies etc.)and those who donate blood are people with a low risk of poor blood quality. But otherwise there is a lack of supply

Cross Licensing

2004-11-09 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear Armchairs, does anybody know, where can I finda comprehensive discussion of the economics of cross licensing and some empirical cases. As I understand the idea behind cross licensing as a means for firm collusion it works similar like grandfathered tradeble permits in environmental