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Job matching and the returns to educational signals

Habermalz, Steffen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Åkerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2014

. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals …

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Choosing monetary sequences : theory and experimental evidence

Manzini, Paola (contributor); Mariotti, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we formulate and investigate experimentally a model of how individuals choose between time sequences of monetary outcomes. The theoretical model assumes that a decision-maker uses, sequentially, two criteria to screen options. Each criterion only permits a decision between some...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323162

Risk, delegation, and project scope

Roider, Andreas (contributor) - 2007

This paper studies a partial-contracting model where an agent may provide effort to increase a project’s scope before some later decisions have to be taken. Consistent with existing empirical evidence, we find a positive relationship between exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that...

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Time discounting and the body mass index

Borghans, Lex (contributor); … - 2005

In many Western countries, the relative weight of people - measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) - has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and related health problems. As with many forms of risky behavior, it is plausible that overweight is...

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Back to Edgeworth? : estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences

Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023

Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...

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The complexity of economic policy : I. Restricted local optima in tax policy design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411222

A simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, two agglomerative forces are at work. However, the present model exhibits a "pitchfork bifurcation" rather than the "tomahawk bifurcation" of the CP model.

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Social networks

Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009

/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling … network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … results with those obtained in sociology. -- Random graph ; game theory ; centrality measures ; network formation ; weak and …

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Linking individuals and societies

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution …

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