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Auriol, Emmanuelle; Gary-Bobo, Robert J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study a class of representation mechanisms, based on reports made by a random subset of agents, called representatives, in a collective choice problem with quasi-linear utilities. We do not assume the existence of a common prior probability describing the distribution of preference types. In...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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Influencing behaviour: The mindspace way

Dolan, P.; Hallsworth, M.; Halpern, D.; King, D.; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 1, pp. 264-277

The ability to influence behaviour is central to many of the key policy challenges in areas such as health, finance and … climate change. The usual route to behaviour change in economics and psychology has been to attempt to ‘change minds’ by … influencing the way people think through information and incentives. There is, however, increasing evidence to suggest that …

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The effects of multi-level group identification on intergroup helping behavior

Brown, Jason L.; Sprinkle, Geoffrey B.; Way, Dan - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 34 (2022) 1, pp. 97-116

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The law of large districts: How district magnitude affects the quality of political representation

Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - In: European Journal of Political Economy 35 (2014) C, pp. 128-140

It is well established that individual parliamentary representatives are less likely to decide according to the preferences of their constituency when the number of representatives per district, i.e. district magnitude, increases. However, we propose that for majority decisions of district...

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Groups Make Better Self-Interested Decisions

Charness, Gary; Sutter, Matthias - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 3, pp. 157-76

In this paper, we describe what economists have learned about differences between group and individual decision-making. This literature is still young, and in this paper, we will mostly draw on experimental work (mainly in the laboratory) that has compared individual decision-making to group...

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Chapter 4. Decision Theoretic Approaches to Experiment Design and External Validity

Banerjee, A.V.; Chassang, S.; Snowberg, E. - 2017

A modern, decision-theoretic framework can help clarify important practical questions of experimental design. Building on our recent work, this chapter begins by summarizing our framework for understanding the goals of experimenters and applying this to rerandomization. We then use this...

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Chapter 7 The Formation of Social Preferences: Some Lessons from Psychology and Biology

Lvy-Garboua, Louis; Meidinger, Claude; Rapoport, Benot - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 545-613). 2006

The goal of this paper is to draw some lessons for economic theory from research in psychology, social psychology and, more briefly, in biology, which purports to explain the formation of social preferences. We elicit the basic mechanisms whereby a variety of social preferences are determined in...

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Chapter 30 Governing Social-Ecological Systems

Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1465-1509). 2006

Social-ecological systems are complex adaptive systems where social and biophysical agents are interacting at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The main challenge for the study of governance of social-ecological systems is improving our understanding of the conditions under which cooperative...

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Knowledge, compensation, and firm value: An empirical analysis of firm communication

Li, Feng; Minnis, Michael; Nagar, Venky; Rajan, Madhav - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 58 (2014) 1, pp. 96-116

Knowledge is central to managing an organization, but its presence in employees is difficult to measure directly. We hypothesize that external communication patterns reveal the location of knowledge within the management team. Using a large database of firm conference call transcripts, we find...

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