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Vostroknutov, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In many models of interdependent preferences the payoffs have not only personal value but also enter the social part of the utility. This duality creates a problem of distinguishing what influences the choice more: consumption or social concerns. To identify what drives the behavior it is...

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Taxes and labour supply under interdependent preferences

Woźny, Łukasz; Garbicz, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In this paper we identify how changes in the income tax rate affect the labour supply under interdependent utility functions. To reach that aim we create a model of the economy in which households choosing their optimal labour supply take into account not only their income, tax rate and...

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Internet CV surveys – a cheap, fast way to get large samples of biased values?

Lindhjem, Henrik; Navrud, Ståle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

With the current growth in broadband penetration, Internet is likely to be the data collection mode of choice for … survey mode may influence data quality and welfare estimates. In a controlled field experiment as part of a large national CV … panel of respondents, either to an Internet or in-person interview mode. Our design is better able than previous mode …

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Density Based Regression for Inhomogeneous Data: Application to Lottery Experiments

Kontek, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

the relation between all the variables. The mean, quantile (including median) and mode re-gression estimators are proposed … inhomogeneity. These include the computational inconveniences of the standard quantile and mode regression techniques. The proposed …

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Il problema della coerenza delle previsioni nei modelli econometrici non lineari

Calzolari, Giorgio; Panattoni, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

other types of problems, like possible non-coherent solutions (and forecasts). In this paper we propose the use of the mode …

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Beliefs and (In)Stability in Normal-Form Games

Hyndman, Kyle; Terracol, Antoine; Vaksmann, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper, we use experimental data to study players' stability in normal-form games where subjects have to report beliefs and to choose actions. Subjects saw each of 12 games four times in a regular or isomorphic form spread over two days without feedback. We document a high degree of...

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Un modelo Nozick aplicado a las compañías militares de seguridad privada, CMSP

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We use two theoretical categories of the work of Robert Nozick (1974), (a) protection agencies and (b) minimal state, to illustrate by analogy to the CMSP, the dilemmas arising from the use of private military in regions with civil wars and conflicts irregular. We see that the relations...

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Trading Participation Rights to the Red Hat Puzzle. Will Markets allocate the rights for performing decision tasks to the more abled players?

Choo, Lawrence C.Y - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the conventional wisdom that markets would naturally allocate the rights for performing decisional task to those players who might be best suited to perform the task. We embedded the decisional tasks in a stylised setting of a game, motivated by Littlewood(1953) Red Hat...

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Lenguaje como estrategia de poder en las guerras civiles

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

In this paper I examine the paradoxical role of language in conflict situations. Support the war and negotiation belong to a game of "speech acts" structured by a double metonymic and metaphorical relationship. That metaphorical relationship between both conceptualizes negotiation as a condensed...

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The Paradox of Misaligned Profiling: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Holt, Charles; Kydd, Andrew; Razzolini, Laura; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper implements an experimental test of a game-theoretic model of equilibrium profiling. Attackers choose a demographic “type” from which to recruit, and defenders choose which demographic types to search. Some types are more reliable than others in the sense of having a higher...

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