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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?

Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171

In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population … strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban migrants. The importance of these expectations for life satisfaction is … particularly pronounced in the urban areas, though also highly significant for the rural area. If expectations were to reverse from …

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How to commit (if you must): Commitment contracts and the dual-self model

Peysakhovich, Alexander - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 101 (2014) C, pp. 100-112

This paper studies how dual-self (Fudenberg and Levine, 2006) decision-makers can use commitment technologies to combat temptation and implement long-run optimal actions. I consider three types of commitment technologies: carrot contracts (rewards for ‘good’ behavior financed by borrowing...

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Do customers return excessive change in a restaurant?

Azar, Ofer H.; Yosef, Shira; Bar-Eli, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 219-226

The article reports the results of a field experiment used to study dishonest behavior in a natural setting. Customers in a restaurant in tables of one or two diners who paid with cash received excessive change of either 10 or 40 Shekels (about $3 or $12). A majority of customers (128 out of...

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Fiscal federalism, jurisdictional competition, and the size of government

Sorens, Jason - In: Constitutional political economy 25 (2014) 4, pp. 354-375

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Economic elites and the constitutional design of sharing political power

Paniagua, Victoria; Vogler, Jan P. - In: Constitutional political economy 33 (2022) 1, pp. 25-52

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Is Russia really a normal country? : a numerical taxonomy of Russia in comparative perspective

Batinti, Alberto; Kopstein, Jeffrey - In: Constitutional political economy 33 (2022) 2, pp. 217-232

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Electoral systems and the economy : a firm-level analysis

Camyar, Isa; Ulupinar, Bahar - In: Constitutional political economy 30 (2019) 1, pp. 1-30

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A decentralized cooperative solution to the iterated pacifist’s dilemma game : notes in the margin of Pinker’s theory of Leviathan

Vuorensyrjä, Matti - In: Constitutional political economy 30 (2019) 2, pp. 235-260

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Path dependence and transitions from tyranny to democracy : evidence from ancient Greece

Fleck, Robert K.; Hanssen, F. Andrew - In: Constitutional political economy 29 (2018) 4, pp. 371-388

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Domestic institutions and the ratification of international agreements in a panel of democracies

Kiesow Cortez, Florian; Gutmann, Jerg - In: Constitutional political economy 28 (2017) 2, pp. 142-166

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