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Noblesse oblige? : determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Savage, David A. (contributor) - 2008
cultural background matter. -- Decision under pressure ; altruism ; social norms ; interdependent preferences ; excess of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771813
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Surviving the Titanic disaster : economic, natural and social determinants
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
enforced. This paper shows that economic analysis can account for human behavior in such situations. -- Decision under pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808139
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Offshoring along the production chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808676
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Market access through bound tariffs
Sala, Davide; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Yalçin, Erdal - 2009
WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910492
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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
the public good and leisure is valuable. Existing experiments start with a given number of "tokens" for each decision … to (or simultaneously with) the decision of how to allocate that income between private and public goods. -- decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697050
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? : an information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
actions. The resulting decisions may be less, rather than more, risky. Making a decision after acquiring information provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937594
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A market for connections
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - 2012
Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are delegated to decide upon. Even if bribing is ruled out,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535107
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Theoretical and practical arguments for modeling labor supply as a choice among latent jobs
Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang; Kornstad, Tom; … - 2012
paper we argue that practicality is not the only feature that can be addressed by means of stochastic choice theory. This … theory also offers a powerful framework for developing a more realistic model for labor supply choices, founded on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488981
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Decision initiation, decision implementation, and the allocation of decision rights
Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2015
implemented. Fama & Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342342
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Individual and developmental differences in the relationship of preferences and theory of mind
Leipold, Kristina; Vetter, Nora C.; Dittrich, Marcus; … - 2012
Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study … examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills …. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the impact of age on this relation. Theory of mind is measured in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689352