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We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...
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We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide practical guidance for the design of crime prevention policies. To illustrate these points, we first present a selective review of several key studies and findings from the...
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surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent papers have discussed the role of "uncertainty" and its … measurement in influencing economic decisions. They attempt to measure uncertainty by indexes of volatility of the stock market …, GDP, forecaster disagreement, mentions of uncertainty in news media, and the dispersion of productivity shocks to firms …
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of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We show that regulatory uncertainty does not diminish the rationale for … intervention, but may require a low minimum wage that may not bind. With expected earnings-maximization, greater uncertainty widens …
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the scenarios of both certainty and uncertainty. We capture the direct interest rate-hysteresis on the investments and the … of a central bank's interest rate policy, e.g. in times of low or even zero interest rates and high uncertainty, in terms …
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percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …-whole (full) compensation and mean and median work incomes. Given that consumption uncertainty associated with compensation …
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Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about their beliefs. We study these "imprecise probabilities", also known as ambiguous beliefs. We show that imprecision is measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People...
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existing belief elicitation results, (ii) can we avoid potential hedging confounds? Our results instill confidence regarding … both issues. We propose an experimental design that eliminates hedging opportunities, and use this to test for the … empirical relevance of hedging effects in the lab. We find no evidence for hedging, comparing the standard hedging-proneʺ belief …
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show that the hedging effectiveness of gold, Bitcoin, and crude oil varies overtime before the Covid-19 pandemic …
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