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Atran, Scott; Axelrod, Robert - HAL - 2008

Sacred values differ from material or instrumental values in that they incorporate moral beliefs that drive action in ways dissociated from prospects for success. Across the world, people believe that devotion to essential or core values – such as the welfare of their family and country, or...

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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008

, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy … allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues …

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Acceptability factors to transport policy changes

Raux, Charles; Souche, Stéphanie - HAL - 2000

The authors have set out an analytical framework of the acceptability of pricing changes in the transport sector. This framework combines the dimensions of economic efficiency (to manage the demand efficiently), territorial equity (guarantee of accessibility), horizontal equity (user-pays...

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Around the World of cotton issues in ten months: a guide for navigation

Fok, Michel; Gourirand, Monica-Barbro - HAL - 2008

Cotton sectors are facing many issues which are quite well reported by online newspapers. Many issues are internal to the running of cotton sectors. They are little related to the international issue of market distortion, pertaining to the "cotton file" of the WTO. A number of issues impeding...

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Is a public regulation of food price volatility feasible in Africa? An arch approach in Kenya

D'Hôtel, Elodie Maître; Cotty, Tristan Le; Jayne, Thomas - HAL - 2012

The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …

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Towards a theory of deception

Jehiel, Philippe; Ettinger, David - HAL - 2005

This paper proposes an equilibrium approach to deception where deception is defined to be the process by which actions are chosen to induce erroneous inferences so as to take advantage of them. Specifically, we introduce a framework with boundedly rational players in which agents make inferences...

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Strategic analysis of petty corruption with an intermediary

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Majumdar, Mukul; Roy, Radner - HAL - 2007

This notes reports part of a larger study of "petty corruption" by government bureaucrats in the process of approving new business projects. Each bureaucrat may demand a bribe as a condition for approval. Entrepreneurs use the services of an intermediary who, for a fee, undertakes to obtain all...

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Dumbing down rational players : learning and teaching in an experimental game

Terracol, Antoine; Vaksmann, Jonathan - HAL - 2007

This paper uses experimental data to examine the existence of a teaching strategy among bounded rational players. If players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this specific end ; and forego immediate payoffs if the...

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Financial Symmetry and Moods in the Market

Savona, Roberto; Soumare, Maxence; Andersen, Jørgen Vitting - HAL - 2014

This paper introduces a theoretical framework for collective decision making to describe fluctuations and transitions in financial markets. Investors are assumed to be boundedly rational, using a limited set of information including past price history and expectation on future dividends....

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