Torsten Templin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of Education Studies

This article analyses how the number of speakers of the Friulian language changes over time in the territory where this language is traditionally spoken, that is, the provinces of Udine, Pordenone, and Gorizia, located in the north-east of Italy in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The aim of this research is twofold. First, it illust...

Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Evaluation von Sprachpolitiken mit Hilfe von Sprachdynamik Modellen. Da sprachliche Diversität ein zentrales Merkmal moderner Gesellschaften darstellt, müssen Staaten und Administrationen Sprachpolitiken sorgfältig gestalten und evaluieren. Mögliche Effekte, Nutzen und Kosten von Politiken müssen bewertet...

This is the Editorial of a special issue of Empirica - Journal of European Economics, entirely devoted to the relationship between language skills, human capital and labour market outcomes. It provides a summary of the seven article contained in the special issue, a critique of the concept of "language commodification" and it sets priorities for fu...

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are, treating properties like degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding. It is argued that allocation and distribution issues ass...

This article presents a new model describing a language competition situation between a local majority language and a migrant minority language. Migrants enter the society, form families, and produce offspring. Adults raise their children in either one of the two languages or both. Children then attend school, learn additional languages as adults,...

We develop a dynamic language competition model with dynamic state intervention. Parents choose the language(s) to raise their children based on the communicational value of each language as well as on their emotional attachment to the languages at hand. Languages are thus conceptualized as tools for communication as well as carriers of cultural id...

Final version of the paper published in Mathematical Social Sciences (2016), pp. 8-21; DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2016.03.006 Final version of the paper can be downloaded free until May 28 2016 under the following link: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1SrCfbeCDooVw We develop a dynamic language competition model with dynamic state intervention. Pare...

This article combines a real options approach to the optimal timing of outsourcing decisions with a linear programming technique for solving one-dimensional optimal stopping problems. We adopt a partial outsourcing model proposed by Y. Moon(2010) which assumes profit flows to follow a geometric Brownian motion and explicitly takes into account the...

The classical newsvendor problem is one of the simplest decision problems under uncertainty. Given the dis-tribution function of the random [unknown] demand for a product, and assuming that the cost and price parameters are known, a vendor decides on the number of units to be ordered/produced at the beginning of a fixed sales period; his objective,...