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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

.Published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), 'Economics and Happiness. Framing the Analysis', Oxford University Press …

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size …

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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Abolishing GDP

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...

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A Theory of Procedurally Rational Choice: Optimization without Evaluation

Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir; Reeven, Peran van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper analyses the behavior of an individual who wants to maximize his utility function, but he is not able to evaluate it. There are many ways to choose a single alternative from a given set. We show that a unique utility maximizing procedure exists. Choices induced by this optimal...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Interacting Agents in Finance

Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This discussion paper led to a chapter in: (S.N. Durlauf & L.E. Blume (Eds.))The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd ed. Vol.4, pp. 402-406. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Interacting agents in finance represent a behavioral, agent-based approach in which financial markets are...

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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual ('utilityinterdependence')....

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Social Identity Strategies in Recent Economics

Davis, John B. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper reviews three distinct strategies in recent economics for using the concept of social identity in the explanation of individual behavior: Akerlof and Kranton’s neoclassical approach, Sen’s commitment approach, and Kirman et al.’s complexity approach. The primary focus is the...

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Kahneman and Tversky and the Origin of Behavioral Economics

Heukelom, Floris - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Kahneman and Tversky and their behavioral economics stand in a long tradition of applying mathematics to human behavior. In the seventeenth century, attempts to describe rational behavior in mathematical terms run into problems with the formulation of the St. Petersburg paradox. Bernoulli’s...

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