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Stability of Time Preferences
Meier, Stephan - 2011
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto - 2013
The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...
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Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?
Sutter, Matthias - 2016
. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact …, concluding a trade has no externality; in the other set, there is a negative externality by voiding donations for a potentially … an externality, but that market prices are hardly different between markets with or without an externality. We also vary …
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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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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
Bosworth, Steven - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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Bread and Bullets
Akerlof, George A. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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Ndc : The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme
Góra, Marek - 2019
This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the retirement phase of the lifecycle. It discusses the differences in four UPPS designs defined with regard...
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction : An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
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