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This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
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This paper analyses the problems linked to the implementation of the Equal Labour Income Equalisation (ELIE) scheme proposed by Kolm (2005). It successively studies the influence of uncertainty in the knowledge of individual incomes, the impact of equivalence scales and finally the consequences...
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the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects … hypothesis that uncertainty about others' rationality plays a major role in causing substantial deviation of forecast prices from …
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first point out that violation of rationality axioms (SARP, GARP, WARP) do not … non-respect of demand theory axioms but by the changing of preferences over the period. A logistic regression confirms the …
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I establish, in simple deterministic overlapping generations economies, that if each agent holds rationally formed expectations in the sense that any other expectations justifying his choices imply a smaller likelihood for the history he observes with limited memory, then there are rationally...
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This paper focuses on the link between the economic conceptions of rationality and learning. Traditionally, most … is not the process of learning, but the result of learning: ‘a fully rational agent'. Heterodox rationality conceptions … such as the Simonian model of bounded rationality seem more compatible with the idea of learning. Bounded rationality …
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We develop a general method to solve models of interactions between multiple and possibly strategic agents. Our model explains apparently irrational or biased behaviors in a person. We argue that these actions could result from several rational structures having different goals. Our main example...
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After a few centuries of speeding up, the distribution of GNP's growth rates has widely changed all round the world. Growth is slowing down in advanced countries and has accelerated in emerging countries. Moreover growth is questioned as a matter of principle. Considering the vast array of...
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In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to …, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper Schumpeter develops thoroughly his own conception of rationality in … indeed interestingly anticipates some important debates concerning the problem of rationality and behavior in economics and …
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rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible …
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