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Economists often perceive the “ideological beliefs“ held by political actors as obstacles to rational policy-making. In contrast, it is argued that ideologies have characteristics that appear desirable in policy- making in that they allow political actors to credibly commit themselves to...
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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...
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counseled to lift their de facto prohibition against deception to capture its potential benefits. To the extent that this … discussion of the methodological costs and benefits of deception, we conclude that experimental economists' prohibition of … deception is a sensible convention that economists should not abandon. …
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-order’ monitoring can actually facilitate the deception of fully rational consumers, to deter them from otherwise optimal search …
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determines voting in the Senate, with the main dimension driven by economic interest, not ideology. Although two dimensions are …
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In recent years, the American market system has come under increasing criticism from those it serves. Many young people …
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This paper studies the role of memory and communication in games between ongoing organizations. In each organization … strategic possibilities. Entry across distinct organizations are asynchronous: no two individuals alive at a date t have entered …
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Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in order to model investments in novel fields of economic activity, that according to this model are carried out when firms recognize the emergence of a new technological pattern....
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In this working paper it is investigated how affect and cognition interact in consumer decision making. The research …
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Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...
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