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Should Political Scientists Use the Self-Confirming Equilibrium Concept? Explaining the Choices of Cognitively Limited Actors
Lupia, Arthur; Zharinova, Natasha; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Many claims about political behavior are based on implicit assumptions about human reasoning. One such assumption, that political actors think in complex and similar ways when assessing strategies, is nested within widely used game theoretic equilibrium concepts. Empirical research casts doubt...
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Cognitive load and strategic sophistication
Allred, Sarah; Duffy, Sean; Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study the relationship between the cognitive load manipulation and strategic sophistication. The cognitive load manipulation is designed to reduce the subject's cognitive resources that are available for deliberation on a choice. In our experiment, subjects are placed under a high cognitive...
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Flexicurity in Labour Contract and Work-Time Arrangements in Bulgaria and Risk Segments
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
development of new forms as telework, home work, self-employment, etc. The analysis of the flexible contractual and working time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836435
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DIE DIFFUSION VON TELEARBEIT: Wo steht die Schweiz heute im internationalen Vergleich? Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung
Harabi, Najib; Schoch, Rolf; Hespeler, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Unter „Telearbeit“ versteht man heute allgemein berufliche Erwerbstätigkeit an einem Arbeitsplatz, der mit ….Im angelsächsischen Sprachgebrauch finden wir die Bezeichnungen „Telework“; wir verwenden die beiden Ausdrücke synonym oder auch … „Telecommuting“. Mit Telearbeit "kommt der Arbeitsplatz zum Menschen" statt wie bisher immer umgekehrt. Die mit der industriellen …
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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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Policy Implications of Economic Complexity and Complexity Economics
Elsner, Wolfram - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Policy implications of complexity economics (CE) are investigated. CE deals with “Complex Adaptive (Economic) Systems” [CA(E)S], generally characterized by mechanisms and properties such as “emergence” of structure or some capacity of “self-organization”. With this, CE has manifold...
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Equal distribution or equal payoffs? Reciprocity and inequality aversion in the investment game
Rodriguez-lara, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We report experimental evidence on second-movers' behavior in the investment game (also known as the trust game) when there exists endowment heterogeneity. Using a within-subject analysis, we investigate whether second-movers have a tendency to be reciprocal (i.e., they return to first movers at...
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Argumentation Quantity and Quality: A Litigation Success Function
Osório-Costa, António M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Arguments are statements used to persuade someone or in support of a claim. However, these are not perfect and part are be exploited by the opponent to build its own argumentation. In this paper we present a litigation success function (LSF) that considers the quality of the plainti¤ and...
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Modelling "race to the bottom" effect on the self-regulated markets
Kolesnik, Georgiy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The effect of the competition among self-regulatory organizations (SROs) on the efficiency of the corresponding goods and services markets is studied. It is shown that under certain conditions the competition among SROs worsens the quality of the goods and services and leads to decreasing...
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Experimental Comparison of Multi-Stage and One-Stage Contests
Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article experimentally studies a two-stage elimination contest and compares its performance with a one-stage contest. Contrary to the theory, the two-stage contest generates higher revenue than the equivalent one-stage contest. There is significant over-dissipation in both stages of the...
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