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Identity and Commitment: Sen's Conception of the Individual

Davis, John B. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one advanced in Davis (2003c). The paper...

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Social Identity Strategies in Recent Economics

Davis, John B. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

social identity and personal identity together. The argument of the paper is that too narrow a scope for reflexivity in …

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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Socio-cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Cities have become playing grounds for competitive behaviour and rapid economic dynamics. But in many cities (or urban agglomerations) economic growth is mainly manifested in specific geographic areas, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs are located. This paper offers first the...

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Errors in Judicial Decisions

Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

In criminal cases the task of the judge is to transform the uncertainty about the facts into the certainty of the …

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Endogenous Technological Change under Uncertainty

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …

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The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: A Meta-Analysis

Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …

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Deliberation, Information Aggregation and Collective Decision Making

Swank, Otto H.; Wrasai, Phongthorn - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote onthe project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability thatgood decisions are made....

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The Economics of Information in Transport

Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...

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Policy Makers, Advisors, and Reputation

Wrasai, Phongthorn; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization' (2007). Volume 62, pages 579-590.<P> When hiring an adviser (he), a policy maker (she) often faces the problem that she has incomplete information about his preferences. Some advisers are good, in...</p>

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