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Does Ethics Training Neutralize the Incentives of the Prisoner's Dilemma? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment

Harvey S. James Jr.; Cohen, Jeffrey - EconWPA - 2002

Teaching economics has been shown to encourage students to defect in a prisoner's dilemma game. However, can ethics … students who had the ethics module had higher rates of cooperation than students without the ethics module, even after … controlling for communication and other factors expected to affect cooperation. We conclude that the teaching of ethics can …

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Consumers’ and Professionals’ Responses to Situations Raising Ethical Questions

Sirieix, Lucie; Gurviez, P.; Rohrig, C. - EconWPA - 2005

’ expectations with regard to ethics are little understood by professionals. This study leads to a better understanding of the …

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Are Happy People Ethical People? Evidence from North America and Europe

Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper contributes to the growing literature on happiness research by examining whether happiness affects the ethical decisions of individuals. First, a recursive model of ethical decision making is developed in which an agent's utility is assumed to be a function of money, ethical...

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"Civil Economy and Civilized Economics: Essentials for Sustainable Development"

Goodwin, Neva; 2001, January - EconWPA - 2001

principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has …

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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to …

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Effects of Portfolio Planning Methods on Decision Making: Experimental Results*

Armstrong, JS; Brodie, Roderick J. - EconWPA - 2004

Subjects (n = 1015) working individually in the role of managers were asked to choose between investment opportunities that would either double their investment or cause the loss of half of it. Six administrators ran experiments on 27 occasions in six countries over a five-year period....

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ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES IN NPD PROJECTS WITHIN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE VALENCIAN REGION (SPAIN)

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala; Melón, Mónica García - EconWPA - 2005

The decisions made during the design process have a critical impact both on the design solution obtained but also on the design process itself. It can be observed that while the way in which products are developed differs not only across firms but within the same firm over time, what is being...

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Genetic Action Trees A New Concept for Social and Economic Simulation

Pitz, Thomas; Chmura, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2005

Multi-Agent Based Simulation is a branch of Distributed Artificial Intelligence that builds the base for computer simulations which connect the micro and macro level of social and economic scenarios. This paper presents a new method of modelling the formation and change of patterns of action in...

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Forecasting for Environmental Decision Making

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004

Those making environmental decisions must not only characterize the present, they must also forecast the future. They must do so for at least two reasons. First, if a no-action alternative is pursued, they must consider whether current trends will be favorable or unfavorable in the future....

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Inflation Targeting: to Forecast or to Simulate

Skorepa, Michal; Kotlan, Viktor - EconWPA - 2003

Inflation targeting is a regime based to a great extent on communication and, more specifically, on using and communicating assessments of future inflation. The central banking literature, however, devotes surprisingly little attention to some important issues connected with such assessments....

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