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Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...
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The paper exploits a simulation environment and its output indicators to compare the performance of "ex-ante" policy instruments across housing and social welfare domains. We create a progressive score to contrast six single and mixed policy instruments against a no-policy baseline. The multiple...
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landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature … simultaneously associated with uncertainty perceptions. We leverage the British referendum of 2016 to leave the European Union as a … unique natural experiment to demonstrate how collective uncertainty, induced by national government policy, affects the …
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We design and implement a novel experimental test of subjective expected utility theory and its generalizations. Our … function, but not with subjective utility theory. The theory is tested by gauging how subjects respond to price changes. A … majority of subjects respond to price changes in the direction predicted by the theory, but not to a degree that makes them …
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This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about … objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters … voters' intrinsic preferences or because of rigidities in the political process. The theory predicts that providing mixed …
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remedy for these shortcomings by developing a dynamical model of procedurally rational decision making. The basic idea of the … model is a feedback loop between experienced utility, decision utility, and activities. In applications of the model, I show …
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We develop a measure of static misallocation that separates uncertainty from misallocation generated by tax …-like distortions. In the Finnish firm-level data, uncertainty accounts for the majority of ex post misallocation and explains a strong … implies idiosyncratic distortions, in line with our accounting approach. According to our quantitative results, uncertainty …
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robust model for small amounts of uncertainty and analyze the effect of robustness on optimal trading strategies and … liquidation costs. In particular, in our model ambiguity aversion is observationally equivalent to increased risk aversion. This …
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between axioms of decision theory: consistency and preference axioms. We argue that this distinction has been overlooked by …We challenge the standard definition of economic rationality as consistency by making use of a novel distinction … the literature and, as a result, evidence that consistency is a proxy of decision-making ability is often based on …
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