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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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How to Make Scientists Agree - An Evolutionary Betting Mechanism

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 2000

This paper proposes an evolutionary betting mechanism that refers to scientists' academic reputation. The mechanism …

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A Subjective Approach to Quantum Probability

Lehrer, Ehud; Shmaya, Eran - EconWPA - 2005

A likelihood order is defined over linear subspaces of a finite dimensional Hilbert space. It is shown that such an order that satisfies some plausible axioms can be represented by a quantum probability in two cases: pure state and uniform measure.

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A Theory of Overconfidence, Self-Attribution, and Security Market Under- and Over-reactions

DANIEL, KENT D.; Hirshleifer, David; SUBRAHMANYAM, AVANIDHAR - EconWPA - 2004

We propose a theory based on investor overconfidence and biased self- attribution to explain several of the securities …

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Prevention and detection in bribery-affected public procurement

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

overall likelihood of bribing tends to a maximum determined by the control mechanisms. The factors affecting the expectation … aimed at continuously perfecting the regulations and the control mechanisms. As the latter are expensive, it is argued that … the overall efficiency of the system, including but beyond control of corruption. …

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What If? A Look at Integrity Pacts

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

risk of bribing. The IP methodology intends to interfere with the central elements in individual tender instantiations by a … bribery, leads to the conclusion that IPs do not heighten the risk of bribing for participants. Contrary to the methodology … announce that the tender was “clean”. It is argued that such manifestations of overcon-fidence are hazardous for the reputation …

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Architectures of Control in Consumer Product Design

Lockton, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

The idea of architectures of control is introduced through examples ranging from urban planning to digital rights …

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A Tale of Two Wages: Separating Contract from Governance

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1997

the choice of governance structure, the second is the nature of the contract linking the worker to the firm. …

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