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Cognitive Economics
Kimball, Miles S. - 2015
Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within … Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data—especially novel … Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called “bounded rationality …
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The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers
Chu, C. Y. Cyrus - 2008
At each age an organism produces energy by foraging and allocates this energy among reproduction, survival, growth, and intergenerational transfers. We characterize the optimal set of allocation decisions that maximizes reproductive fitness. Time preference (the discount rate) is derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770874
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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded - 2011
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124844
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David K. - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079202
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Culture : Persistence and Evolution
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2014
This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053157
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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence
Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James - 2021
Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213407
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
Cultural transmission arguably plays an important role in the determination of many fundamental preference traits (e.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards family and fertility practices, and attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136354
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What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?
Chandra, Amitabh - 2020
States. We describe the central economic questions raised by AD. While there is overlap with the economics of aging, the … defining features of the ‘economics of Alzheimer's Disease' is an emphasis on cognitive decline, choice by cognitively impaired … public programs for AD. These topics overlap with many areas of economics -- labor economics, health economics, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824275
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On Money as a Medium of Exchange in Near-Cashless Credit Economies
Lagos, Ricardo - 2019
that—in contrast to current conventional wisdom in policy-oriented research in monetary economics—the role of money in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871153
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The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2006
This essay offers a brief history of macroeconomics, together with an evaluation of what has been learned over the past several decades. It is based on the premise that the field has evolved through the efforts of two types of macroeconomist%u2014 those who understand the field as a type of...
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