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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002
This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
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Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2003
Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556538
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe
Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000
Abstract : Abuse and neglect of older adults (« elder abuse ») has a significant impact on the lives of the individuals involved. At the same time, it has a broader social and economic cost. Many of these are « hidden costs » in the sense that the cause of the underlying problem is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126055
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CAPITAL SOCIAL Y CALIDAD DE VIDA
Vivas, Alejandro; Acevedo, Alberto Alvarado - EconWPA - 2004
La formación de Capital social es un factor clave para el desarrollo de programas y proyectos dirigidos a la superación de la pobreza. La investigación hace explícitos los factores asociados a la generación de capital social en un proyecto de desarrollo llevado a cabo en un barrio pobre de...
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Social Preferences: Some Simple Tests and a New Model
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001
Departures from pure self interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We conduct experiments on simple two-person and three-person games with binary choices that test these theories more directly than the array of games conventionally considered. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062663
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Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004
It is traditional in experimental games to allow participants to choose only actions or possibly communicate intended play. In sequential two-person games, we require first movers to express a preference between responder choices. We find that responder behavior differs substantially according...
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Bargaining Structure, Fairness and Efficiency
Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001
Experiments with the ultimatum game -- where one party can make a take-it-or-leave-it offer to a second party on how to split a pie -- illustrate that conventional game theory has been wrong in its predictions regarding the simplest of bargaining settings: Even when one party has enormous...
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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …-cost bargainers to demand fairness and to persist in their demands was a function of how much it cost them to do so, and the degree to …
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Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - EconWPA - 2005
The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of...
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