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1000 Laboratories: New Principles to Organize Scientific Research in Russia
Dezhina, I.; A. Ponomarev. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 3 (2013)
The article analyzes reforms of organizational structure of Russian science in the post-Soviet period. The authors … suggest a new model of organizing research groups with the aim to increase international competitiveness of Russian science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007678
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Interaction and mediation in preadmission clinics : implications for the design of a telehealth stethoscope
Kraal, Ben J.; Popovic, Vesna - 2010
A telehealth stethoscope would make it possible for doctors to perform physical examinations on patients at great distances. In order to develop a useful and usable telehealth stethoscope we have conducted fieldwork observations of existing anaesthetic preadmission clinics to understand how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438159
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Estimating Bayesian decision problems with heterogeneous priors
Hansen, Stephen Eliot; McMahon, Michael - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2013
In many areas of economics there is a growing interest in how expertise and preferences drive individual and group … making. In this paper we propose a new channel through which we can empirically identify expertise and preference parameters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849638
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Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Priors
Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
In many areas of economics there is a growing interest in how expertise and preferences drive individual and group … making. In this paper we propose a new channel through which we can empirically identify expertise and preference parameters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851379
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Value judgments and economics expertise
Baujard, Antoinette - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
studies of science, the paper proposes a definition of ‘expertise’, and translates this into a list of successive stages …This paper tackles the problem of the demarcation of value judgments in economic expertise. Is it possible to … disentangle values from facts, or neutral scientific assertions from value-laden judgments, in the context of economic expertise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858008
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Blind Stealing: Experience and Expertise in a Mixed-Strategy Poker Experiment
Essen, Matt Van; Wooders, John - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2013
We explore the role of experience in mixed-strategy games by comparing, for a stylized version of Texas Hold-em, the behavior of experts, who have extensive experience playing poker online, to the behavior of novices. We find significant differences. The initial frequencies with which players...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883512
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The ethics of scientific communication under uncertainty
Keohane, Robert O; Lane, Melissa; Oppenheimer, Michael - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 13 (2014) 4, pp. 343-368
Communication by scientists with policy makers and attentive publics raises ethical issues. Scientists need to decide how to communicate knowledge effectively in a way that nonscientists can understand and use, while remaining honest scientists and presenting estimates of the uncertainty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942419
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Technique of Monitoring of the Implementation of Anti-Corruption Expertise of Legal Acts and Draft Normative Legal Acts in the Practice of Rulemaking
Yuzhakov, Vladimir; Tsirin, Artem; Efremov, A. - Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and … - 2014
implementation of anti-corruption expertise of legal acts and draft normative legal acts in the practice of rule-making bodies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211903
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279343
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Optimal Delegation with a Finite Number of States
Anesi, Vincent; Seidmann, Daniel J. - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2011
This paper studies delegation without monetary transfers when the number of possible states is small, and therefore finite. To do so, we fully characterize the class of optimal delegation sets in the finite-state version of Holmstrom’s (1984) seminal model and analyze their properties. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545640