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Individual Learning : Theory Formation, and Feedback in a Complex Task

Lanteri, Alessandro; Novarese, Marco - 2007

We present an experiment for the study of learning in a complex task which requires both memorisation and the ability to process several pieces of information. The outcome of an action, for which immediate feedback is given, depends on the context (i.e. one of thirty-two sequences of three...

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On the (Non)-Lattice Structure of Equilibrium Sets in Games with Strategic Substitutes

Roy, Sunanda - 2020

This paper studies models where the optimal response functions under consideration are non-increasing in endogenous variables, and weakly increasing in exogenous parameters. Such models include games with strategic substitutes, and include cases where additionally, some variables may be...

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The transfer space

Friedrich, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Within the transfer space source and sink exchange material and energy to optimize their own productivity. Under … certain conditions this optimization will lead to a productivity increase of the whole ensemble. The present day view that … called exploitation. The outcome depends on the relation between fix cost, variable cost, productivity and affinity. Brute …

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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms

Simačev, Jurij V.; Kuzyk, Michail; Feygina, Vera - 2013

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...

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Beliefs and (In)Stability in Normal-Form Games

Hyndman, Kyle; Terracol, Antoine; Vaksmann, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper, we use experimental data to study players' stability in normal-form games where subjects have to report beliefs and to choose actions. Subjects saw each of 12 games four times in a regular or isomorphic form spread over two days without feedback. We document a high degree of...

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Un modelo Nozick aplicado a las compañías militares de seguridad privada, CMSP

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We use two theoretical categories of the work of Robert Nozick (1974), (a) protection agencies and (b) minimal state, to illustrate by analogy to the CMSP, the dilemmas arising from the use of private military in regions with civil wars and conflicts irregular. We see that the relations...

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Trading Participation Rights to the Red Hat Puzzle. Will Markets allocate the rights for performing decision tasks to the more abled players?

Choo, Lawrence C.Y - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the conventional wisdom that markets would naturally allocate the rights for performing decisional task to those players who might be best suited to perform the task. We embedded the decisional tasks in a stylised setting of a game, motivated by Littlewood(1953) Red Hat...

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Lenguaje como estrategia de poder en las guerras civiles

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

In this paper I examine the paradoxical role of language in conflict situations. Support the war and negotiation belong to a game of "speech acts" structured by a double metonymic and metaphorical relationship. That metaphorical relationship between both conceptualizes negotiation as a condensed...

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The Paradox of Misaligned Profiling: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Holt, Charles; Kydd, Andrew; Razzolini, Laura; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper implements an experimental test of a game-theoretic model of equilibrium profiling. Attackers choose a demographic “type” from which to recruit, and defenders choose which demographic types to search. Some types are more reliable than others in the sense of having a higher...

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The absolute equilibrum theory; a new vision of the goods exchange

Arem, Rim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper concerns assimilation between physiques and economics. Assuming fixed time value of goods each year along with a new concept of empty goods and its interpretation on good’s exchange. We redefined the economy and briefly described the macroeconomic, the microeconomic and Islamic...

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