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Identity-Driven Cooperation Versus Competition
Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
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Collective Bargaining Under Non-Binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2014
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
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Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Bertoli, Simone - 2020
Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...
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Rational Addiction and Time Consistency : An Empirical Test
Piccoli, Luca - 2020
This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843165
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Rational Students and Resit Exams
Kooreman, Peter - 2012
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
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Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information
Drobner, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2022
We study belief updating about relative performance in an ego-relevant task. Manipulating the perceived ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs optimistically because they derive direct utility flows from holding positive beliefs. This finding provides a behavioral...
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Testing Bounded Rationality Against Full Rationality in Job Changing Behavior
Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - 2021
In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behaviour, via simple … forces of job change are future real wages and expected job quality. Bounded rationality suggests that individuals will … and between cells. Under full rationality the following are to be expected: high inter-cell mobility, large dispersion …
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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Habermalz, Steffen - 2010
learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135991
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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation
Baader, Malte; Lee, Kyeongtae; Gaechter, Simon; Sefton, … - 2022
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2011
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional...
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