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Australia’s underground economy – redux?
Breusch, Trevor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Bajada (2006) recognises that his earlier books and papers used a faulty method for measuring the underground economy in Australia. He also reports finding a new “more serious problem” in the method. All of these failures can be avoided, it is claimed, by reduced use of currency modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267866
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Mentalism versus behaviourism in economics: a philosophy-of-science perspective
Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less existent than the unobservable entities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258839
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Australia’s underground economy – redux?
Breusch, Trevor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Bajada (2006) recognises that his earlier books and papers used a faulty method for measuring the underground economy in Australia. He also reports finding a new “more serious problem” in the method. All of these failures can be avoided, it is claimed, by reduced use of currency modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621306
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Convergence and Divergence in Europe: Polish and Ukrainian Cases
Lukianenko, Dmytro; Chuzhykov, Viktor; Woźniak, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The all-round aspects of bilateral relations are considered in the common Ukrainian-Polish monograph. Authors uncover important features of social-andeconomic systems convergence under conditions of globalization and European integration, as well as the further transformation of Central- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111791
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Causal Depth: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Causal Explanation contra Humean Empiricism
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons. It is not an exhaustive treatment but rather focuses on a few aspects that may be the most critical in evaluating the explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623475
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Causal Depth contra Humean Empiricism: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Explanation
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons. It is not an exhaustive treatment but rather focuses on a few aspects that may be the most critical in evaluating the explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787185
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Transparency and View Regarding Nuclear Energy Before and After the Fukushima Accident: Evidence on Micro-data
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the influence of government transparency on changing views regarding nuclear energy before and after Japan’s natural and nuclear disaster of 2011. Individual level data were used, covering 45 countries and containing 27,423 observations. It was observed in the majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259284
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Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests
Mago, Shakun; Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the effect of social identification and information feedback on individual behavior in …. Identifying subjects through photo display decreases wasteful effort. Providing information feedback about others’ effort does not … improved information feedback decreases the heterogeneity of effort. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259314
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Visibility of Contributors and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods
Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the impact of visibility of contributors and cost of information on public good …, even when viewing contributors’ information is costly. This effect holds even though the identities of contributors are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259460
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Seniority, Information and Electoral Accountability
Rodet, Cortney Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper addresses the impact information has on electoral accountability in a legislative system based on seniority … using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …. Voter information about incumbent behavior is varied across experimental treatments, and I find that information leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259528