. The model accounts for the special interests of downtown retailers and competing superstores at the edge of the city, and … studies how lobbying by both groups shapes the government’s policy. We find that downtown retailers typically have steeper … lobbying contribution schedules than superstores, which induces the government to underprice central roads and parking spaces …

Recent research is exploring the case for choice-induced changes in preferences using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm … (1956). Participants are faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a … time, and it is found that an item not chosen in one choice has a lower tendency of being chosen in a subsequent choice …

We study two dimensions of complexity that may interfere with individual choice. The first one is object complexity …, which corresponds to the difficulty in evaluating any given alternative in a choice set. The second dimension is composition …-with-evaluation-errors theory that incorporates both dimensions and delivers sharp empirical predictions about their effect on choice behavior. We …

The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is …

’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …

declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The …, business perceptions hardly reacted to any other potential source of information: Firms did not learn from foreign policy … expectations and uncertainty, albeit to a much lesser extent than the domestic policy changes. …

the Belgian lockdown policy is negative for low valuations of life years lost. The gains of extending the Belgian lockdown … policy are negative even for high valuation of life. …