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L’expérimentation en économie et en psychologie: une comparaison méthodologique.
Marc, Ohana - EconWPA - 2004
L’objet de ce travail est de souligner les divergences qui ont amené les expérimentateurs en économie à se démarquer de la méthodologie expérimentale introduite par les psychologues. Après avoir rappelé en quoi consiste une expérience de laboratoire et quels sont les principes de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126094
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A Double Auction Market with Signals of Varying Precision
Plat, Carl - EconWPA - 2005
A computerized double auction market with human traders is employed to examine the relation of price and volume under conditions of asymmetric information. In this market, the informed traders receive higher precision signals than the uninformed traders. The relation of price and volume has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556681
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Catalysts for regional development: putting territorial coordination in practice
Gordillo, Gustavo; Wagner, Rodrigo - EconWPA - 2004
Lack of coordination among agencies at project level and scarce promotion of contracts at micro-scale are critical gaps widely spread in many Latin American regions. We discuss some specific and feasible mechanisms, namely: (i) alliances for rural development and (ii) contract promoters; that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119026
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The intermingling between cognitive economics and experimental
Novarese, Marco; Rizzello, Salvatore - EconWPA - 2004
The paper discusses the relation between experimental economics and the cognitive approach, after having outlined the … chief characteristics of the major lines of research in both areas, also with reference to the historical development and to … methodological issues. Then the attention is focused on the relevance of the experimental method for the analysis of learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076658
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Against Rigid Rules - Keynes's Economic Theory
Muchlinski, Elke - EconWPA - 2005
This paper provides textual evidence of Keynes´s position on monetary policy and shaping international monetary relations. One result of my contribution is that the famous dichotomy 'rules versus discretion' is of no relevance to his economic theory, because he used the term 'rules' not in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076842
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La question de l'accès au droit dans le cadre de la réforme de la justice : Vers une méthode comparative
Jacquinet, Marc - EconWPA - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126027
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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 provides incentives for theoretical and empirical researchers to work on joint projects, thereby producing more general findings and stylized facts that can be used in giving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126068
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The Disutility of International Debt: Analytical Results and Methodological Implications
Hannsgen, Greg - EconWPA - 2005
In dealing with the problematic relationship of morality to rational choice theory, neoclassical economists since Lionel Robbins have often argued that they can incorporate moral values into consumer theory by putting those values into the utility function. This paper tests the viability of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126078
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Review of Bruce Caldwell (2004) 'Hayek’s Challenge: an Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek'
Denis, Andy - EconWPA - 2004
Bruce Caldwell (2004) “Hayek’s Challenge” tells the story of the evolution of Hayek’s methodological standpoint. In Caldwell’s account, Hayek is driven by the desire to identify a truly scientific approach to the study of society as a complex adaptive order which at the same time will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412538
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Review of Nicola Giocoli (2003) 'Modelling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics To Early Modern Game Theory'
Denis, Andy - EconWPA - 2004
Giocoli (2003) won awards from ESHET and, in its original form as Giocoli’s PhD thesis, from HES. It lives up to its promise. According to Giocoli, in the period between the 1890s and the 1980s a transformation took place in the way that economists thought about what it was that they were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412549