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Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms

Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020

It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...

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Predation enforcement options : an evaluation using a Cournot framework

Hüschelrath, Kai; Weigand, Jürgen - 2010

The paper characterises the building blocks of a framework to enforce antipredation rules and subsequently evaluates selected enforcement options in a Cournot-type duopoly predation model. Differentiating between a no rule approach, an ex ante approach and two ex post approaches, it is shown...

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Subjective well-being and public policy

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes

Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020

emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …

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Econometric explorations on bounded rationality : the case of job changing behavior

Contini, Bruno (contributor); Morini, Matteo (contributor) - 2007

"In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behavior, via simple econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). A rational outcome of the job matching process implies a positive tradeoff between future...