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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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The political economy of income comparisons and economic growth

Chaudhry, Azam; Garner, Phillip - In: Economic modelling 31 (2013), pp. 214-222

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Toward longer investment : is an inclusive regime always better than an authoritarian one?

Dai, Darong; Tian, Guoqiang - In: Economic modelling 98 (2021), pp. 41-68

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Costly technology adoption, redistribution and growth

Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - In: Economic modelling 33 (2013), pp. 440-449

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Cooperative economic growth

Dai, Darong - In: Economic modelling 33 (2013), pp. 407-415

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Endogenous environmental policy for small open economies with transboundary pollution

Fünfgelt, Joachim; Schulze, Günther G. - In: Economic modelling 57 (2016), pp. 294-310

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Interest-group size and legislative lobbying

Schneider, Maik T. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 29-41

We develop a model of legislative decision making in which lobbying and public policy are jointly determined. We examine how policy outcomes depend on the sizes of the interest groups. While a larger size typically involves favorable effects on policy, we also identify threshold levels of...

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Going green and (un)equal? : political coalitions, redistribution, and the environment

Gatti, Donatella - In: Economic modelling 116 (2022), pp. 1-10

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