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Were Bush Tax Cut Supporters “Simply Ignorant?” A Second Look at Conservatives and Liberals in “Homer Gets a Tax Cut”

Lupia, Arthur; Levine, Adam S.; Menning, Jesse O.; Sin, … - EconWPA - 2005

’ results depend on a very strong assumption about how information affects public opinion. He restricts all respondents … questions of public policy seriously while respecting ideological and partisan differences in opinion and interest. Indeed … turning our attention to explaining differences of opinion, we can help to forge a stronger and more credible foundation for …

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Why pay extra? Tipping and the importance of social norms and feelings in economic theory

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

importance of social norms and feelings (e.g. embarrassment and unfairness felt when one does not tip) in motivating economic …

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Who Do We Tip and Why? An Empirical Investigation

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

An important question about social norms is whether they are created to increase welfare; I address it by examining the characteristics of tipped and non-tipped occupations. Tipping prevalence is negatively correlated with worker’s income and consumer’s monitoring ability and positively with...

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The History of Tipping - From Sixteenth-Century England to United States in the 1910s

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

have no feelings and do not care about social norms. This article reviews the early history of tipping and offers an …

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Opinion Pooling under Asymmetric Information

Dietrich, Franz - EconWPA - 2004

If each member of a group assigns a certain probability to a hypothesis, what probability should the collective as a whole assign? More generally, how should individual probability functions be merged into a single collective one? I investigate this question in case that the individual...

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Unidimensional Voting and Multidimensional Issues: The Role of Interest Groups

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996

Voting on unidimensional issues will produce equilibrium outcomes if voter preferences are single peaked. While the equilibrium outcomes would not necessarily be Pareto optimal, they would be stable. This paper shows that voting on multidimensional issues can produce stable equilibria if the...

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The Importance of Objectivity and Falsification in Management Science

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

In general, I thought that the Boal and Willis “Note on the Armstrong/Mitroff Debate” 1 provided an interesting and fair discussion. 2 The summary of the consequences of the subjective versus objective approaches (Table 1 in their paper) was helpful. It clearly outlined the dilemma faced by...

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Advocacy and Objectivity in Science

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

hypotheses strategy seems to be both efficient and unbiased. Despite its apparent lack of objectivity, most management scientists … advocacy. A review of the published empirical evidence indicates that advocacy reduces tire objectivity of the scientists. No … evidence was found to suggest that this lack of objectivity could be overcome by a 'marketplace for ideas' (i.e., publication …

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Statistical Inference as a Bargaining Game

Ley, Eduardo - EconWPA - 2001

This paper extends the analogy previously established by Leamer (1978a), between a Bayesian inference problem and an economics allocation problem, and shows that posterior modes can be interpreted as optimal outcomes of a bargaining game. This bargaining game, over a parameter value, is played...

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As the People Want It, Blueprint for a New Confederation

Knutsen, John F - EconWPA - 2004

Presents a complete and detailed constitutional framework applying the rational self-interest model and market mechanisms to intra and inter- governmental behaviour and collective decisions. In particular, the paper presents an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of...

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