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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....
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A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2000
') bias in the estimates and, after due account is taken of this bias, we find that differences due to estimation method are …
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International Diversification at Home and Abroad
Cai, Fang - 2006
observed home bias …
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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence
Neumark, David - 2016
that have sufficient information to correct for this bias. For the housing market studies, the estimated effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456397
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Bias against Novelty in Science : A Cautionary Tale for Users of Bibliometric Indicators
Wang, Jian - 2016
Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and...
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It's Good to be First : Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2015
individuals can exhibit both primacy bias towards the first option and recency bias towards the last option. We examine this …; however, there is also some recency bias, with the last paper listed receiving more views, downloads and cites. The results …
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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
Enke, Benjamin - 2020
Throughout the Western world, people's policy views are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. This …
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …
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Universalism : Global Evidence
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...
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Integrating Ethical Values and Economic Value to Steer Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Korinek, Anton - 2019
Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the … bias and discrimination, hack the human brain, and increasingly reduce human autonomy. Market incentives to create ever …
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