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Ethical Issues in Engineering Models : Personal Reflections

Kleijnen, Jack P.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

I start this contribution with an overview of my personal involvement—as an Operations Research consultant—in several engineering case-studies that may raise ethical questions; these case studies employ simulation models. Next, I present an overview of the recent literature on ethical issues...

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The Price of Ethics : Evidence from Socially Responsible Mutual Funds

Renneboog, Luc; ter Horst, Jenke; Zhang, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper estimates the price of ethics by studying the risk-return relation in socially responsible investment (SRI …) funds. Consistent with investors paying a price for ethics, SRI funds in many European and Asia-Pacific countries strongly …. SRI funds do not suffer a cost of reduced selectivity nor do SRI funds managers time the market. There is mixed evidence …

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Internal and External Discipline Following Securities Class Actions

Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

actions, it has not examined SCAs, and has not examined external discipline and the managers's future employment prospects …

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Bonus Schemes and Trading Activity

Renneboog, Luc; ter Horst, Jenke; Pikulina, E.S.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: Little is known about how different bonus schemes affect traders’ propensity to trade and which bonus schemes improve traders’ performance. We study the effects of linear versus threshold (convex) bonus schemes on traders’ behavior. Traders purchase and sell shares in an...

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A Non-cooperative Approach to the Compensation Rules for Primeval Games

Borm, Peter; Ju, Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

AMS Classifications: 91A06; 91A10; 91A12

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Externalities and Compensation : Primeval Games and Solutions

Borm, Peter; Ju, Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

)) associate the externality problem with efficiency.This paper focuses explicitly on the compensation problem in the context of …: primeval games.These games are used to design normative compensation rules for the underlying compensation problems: the …

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Boundedly rational decision emergence : A general perspective and some selective illustrations

Güth, W. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

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Probabilistic insurance

Wakker, P.P.; Thaler, R.H.; Tversky, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

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Expected and realized income changes : Evidence from the Dutch socio-economic panel

Das, Marcel; van soest, arthur - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

Income expectations play a central role in household decision making. In the life cycle model for example, consumption and savings decisions reflect expectations of future income. In empirical applications where direct information on expectations is not available, it is usually assumed that...

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The Role of Desicion Making Processes in the Correlation between Wealth and Health

Binswanger, Johannes; Carman, K.G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health. Here we consider the possibility that the decision making...

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