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economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …
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Ages. We argue that training in the law, and the consequent development of legal and administrative institutions, was an …-rediscovered Roman and canon law; students with legal training served in positions that reduced the uncertainty of trade in the Middle …
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decision making. We asked 123 professional lawyers and 247 law students in Germany this question, and they clearly predicted …
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technology stocks using fractional integration techniques. More precisely, it analyses the behaviour of the percentage returns in … - MONE, NEM, Tether – TETH) and two technology related stock market indices (the KBW NASDAQ Technology Index – KFTX, and the …
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This paper presents novel evidence for the prevalence of deviations from rational behavior in human decision making – and for the corresponding causes and consequences. The analysis is based on move-by-move data from chess tournaments and an identification strategy that compares behavior of...
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Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany’s retail gasoline market where algorithmic-pricing software became...
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summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain … numerous documented violations of classical economic theory. We also propose promising new directions for future research …, including attention-based utility, the recent proliferation of attentional externalities introduced by digital technology, the …
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Algorithms play an increasingly important role in economic situations. These situations are often strategic, where the artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We study the deter-minants and forms of algorithmic cooperation in the infinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma. We run a...
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Qualitative interviews are one of the fundamental tools of empirical social science research and give individuals the … qualitative research while enabling large-scale, cost-effective data collection suitable for quantitative analysis. We demonstrate …
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can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and …
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