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Social status and crime
Arbak, Emrah - HAL - 2005
We consider a large population of agents choosing either to engage in a criminal activity or working. Individuals feel varying degrees of selfreproach if they commit criminal acts. In addition, they are concerned with their social status in society, based on others' perceptions of their values....
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Price revelation and existence of equilibrium in a private belief economy
Boisdeffre, Lionel De - HAL - 2013
' private information or beliefs. This result suggests that existence problems of standard sequential equilibrium models …
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Can Wages Signal Kindness?
Arbak, Emrah; Kranich, Laurence - HAL - 2005
assume that intentions are private information. Thus, the wage proposal signals the intentions of the employer to the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793118
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Do countries falsify economic data strategically? Some evidence that they might.
Michalski, Tomasz; Stoltz, Gilles - HAL - 2013
Using Benford's Law, we find evidence supporting the hypothesis that countries at times misreport their economic data strategically. We group countries with similar economic conditions and find that for countries with fixed exchange rate regimes, high negative net foreign asset positions,...
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Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market
Cornée, Simon; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013
Social banks are financial intermediaries paying attention to non-economic (i.e., social, ethical, and environmental) criteria. To investigate the behavior of social banks on the credit market, this paper proposes both theory and empirics. Our theoretical model rationalizes the idea that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820843
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Changing Identity: The Emergence of Social Groups
Horst, Ulrich; Kirman, Alan; Teschl, Miriam - HAL - 2006
Homo Economicus has progressed from an atomistic and self-interested individual in standard economics to a socially embedded agent in modern economics who is endowed with a particular social identity or with specific preferences for the latter. While this vision makesthe economic agent more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794201
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Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1)
Chanel, Olivier; Luchini, Stephane; Massoni, Sébastien; … - HAL - 2010
democracies, governments need to convince their populations through efficient and persuasive information campaigns. In the context …, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate …, and that it is information of a purely scientific nature that has the only significant positive effect on intention to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930176
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Vers une théorie connexioniste de la firme.Towards a Connexionist Theory of the Firm. How Knowledge is Treated in Economic Analysis
Paulré, Bernard - HAL - 2005
de l'information et de la connaissance. Nous opposons, ce qui est banal dans le domaine de sciences cognitives, et ne l …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750728
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Incertitude scientifique et décision publique: le recours au Principe de Précaution
BOUGLET, Tania; Lanzi, Thomas; Vergnaud, Jean-Christophe - HAL - 2006
Dans cet article, nous formalisons deux critères de décisions qui tentent de rendre compte de deux logiques différentes d'interprétation du Principe de précaution. Le premier critère correspond à la maximisation du minimum de l'espérance d'utilité alors que le second critère correspond...
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The Duality of Knowledge.
Hildreth, Paul; Kimble, Chris - HAL - 2002
stored - an approach more deserving of the label Information Management. Recently there has been recognition that some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898455