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van Damme, Eric - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

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Economic Well-Being and Poverty Among the Elderly : An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model

Cherchye, L.J.H.; de Rock, B.; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lew- bel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule...

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The Socially Stable Core in Structured Transferable Utility Games

Talman, Dolf; Herings, P.J.J.; van der Laan, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

We consider cooperative games with transferable utility (TU-games), in which we allow for a social structure on the set …

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Behavioral Decisions and Welfare (Replaces CentER DP 2010-22)

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Ghosal, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

If decision-makers (DMs) do not always do what is in their best interest, what do choices reveal about welfare? This paper shows how observed choices can reveal whether the DM is acting in her own best interest. We study a framework that relaxes rationality in a way that is common across a...

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Behavioral Decisions and Policy

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Ghosal, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We study the public policy implications of a model in which agents do not fully internalize all the conscequences of their actions. Such a model uni es seemingly disconected models with behavioral agents. We evaluate the scope of paternalistic and libertarian-parternalistic policies in the light...

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Decisions with Endogenous Frames (Replaces CentER DP 2010-21)

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Ghosal, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

This paper contrasts the normative implications of a model of decision- making with endogenous frames to those of choice theoretic models of Bernheim and Rangel (2007, 2009) and Rubinstein and Salant (2008) in which observed choices are determined by exogenous frames or ancillary conditions. We...

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Is Utility Transferable? A Revealed Preference Analysis

Cherchye, L.J.H.; Demuynck, T.; de Rock, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

We provide a revealed preference analysis of the transferable utility hypothesis, which is widely used in economic … consistent with Pareto efficiency under transferable utility. Next, we show that these conditions are easily testable by means of … data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical test of the transferable utility hypothesis. …

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Methodological Interactionism : Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology,...

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Procedural Group Identification

Dimitrov, D.A.; Sung, S.C.; Xu, Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group.The first procedure starts with the set of all individuals who define themselves as members of the social group, while the starting point of the second procedure is the set of all individuals who are...

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On the Axiomatic Characterization of "Who is a J?"

Dimitrov, D.A.; Sung, S.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Recent work by Kasher and Rubinstein (1997) considers the problem of group identification from a social choice perspective.These authors provide an axiomatic characterization of a liberal aggregator whereby the group consist of those and only those individuals each of which views oneself a...

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