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Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2008
We present an infinite-horizon model of moral standards where self-esteem and unconscious drives play key roles. In the model, an individual receives random temptations (such as bribe offers) and must decide which to resist. Individual actions depend both on conscious intent and a type...
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Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments
Casella, Alessandra - 2008
The paper studies a voting scheme where members of a committee voting sequentially on a known series of binary proposals are each granted a single extra bonus vote to cast as desired - a streamlined version of Storable Votes. When the order of the agenda is exogenous, a simple sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464160
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The Streetlight Effect in Data-Driven Exploration
Hoelzemann, Johannes; Manso, Gustavo; Nagaraj, Abhishek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine innovative contexts like scientific research or technical R&D where agents must search across many potential projects of varying and uncertain returns. Is it better to possess incomplete but accurate data on the value of some projects, or might there be cases where it is better to...
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Disentangling Exploration from Exploitation
Lizzeri, Alessandro; Shmaya, Eran; Yariv, Leeat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Starting from Robbins (1952), the literature on experimentation via multi-armed bandits has wed exploration and exploitation. Nonetheless, in many applications, agents' exploration and exploitation need not be intertwined: a policymaker may assess new policies different than the status quo; an...
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Ends versus Means : Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468273
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The Future of Health Economics
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1999
This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three leading American health economists. Five important,...
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Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice : with Focus on Personalized Medicine
Manski, Charles F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper extends my research applying statistical decision theory to treatment choice with sample data, using maximum … in indirect ways, the former applying classical statistical theory and the latter measuring prediction accuracy in test … samples. Neither approach is satisfactory. Statistical decision theory provides a coherent, generally applicable methodology …
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Herding with Heterogeneous Ability : An Application to Organ Transplantation
Mel, Stephanie de; Munshi, Kaivan; Reiche, Soenje; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
There are many economic environments in which an object is offered sequentially to prospective buyers. It is often observed that once the object for sale is turned down by one or more agents, those that follow do the same. One explanation that has been proposed for this phenomenon is that agents...
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Climate Change Uncertainty Spillover in the Macroeconomy
Barnett, Michael; Brock, William A.; Hansen, Lars Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
in the future. We appeal to decision theory under risk, model ambiguity and misspecification concerns to provide an …
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A Synthetic Model of Disruption and Experimentation
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines how a firm's choice of the type of experiment impacts on its potential exploitation of new technological opportunities. It does so in the context of the failure of successful firms (or disruption) where the literature has informally suggested that firms undertake errors in...
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