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Spanish Abstract: Este artículo revisa las ideas de Coase sobre la metodología en economía a partir de su crítica de Friedman y las compara con ideas provenientes de otros campos. Argumenta que su adaptación de Kuhn es más apropiada para la economía en su forma actual que para la época...
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BCG are widely considered to be an ideal tool for analyzing individual depth of reasoning. Accordingly, experimental results are interpreted as arising from different levels of reasoning. In this paper we turn attention to heterogeneity in computational skills. We show that the presence of...
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Under what circumstances is it necessary or convenient for an agent to rely on habits and rules? This paper focuses on the types of decision situation giving rise to their use. Even optimisation requires the development of rules, and for this reason mainstream economics cannot legitimately...
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Se realiza una revisión de literatura sobre la aversión al riesgo en la toma de decisiones médicas. Se presenta la aversión al riesgo desde las teorías de la utilidad esperada subjetiva y desde la utilidad esperada basada en rangos. Se revisan las metodologías de medición de la aversión...
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A common assumption, often accepted by regulators – that individuals act only in their narrow self-interest – is false. Evidence from both the natural and social sciences suggests that most people are strongly motivated to cooperate and help one another. Organizations (such as Toyota and...
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The Economics of Happiness is an area of the economy that emerged as an alternative for measuring the quality of life of people from the perspective of subjective well-being. Most of happiness studies study the determinants of happiness and relationships with economic, social and psychological...
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El Programa de investigación Heurísticas y Sesgos" liderado por el economista Amos Tversky (fallecido en 1996) y por el sicólogo ganador del premio Nobel Daniel Kahneman, ha ofrecido desde 1971 una alternativa al Modelo de la Utilidad Esperada en el campo de la toma de decisiones. Las...
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When receiving the Nobel Prize, Hurwicz took up the question “who is watching the guards?” and considered two approaches. One pessimistic, inspired by Juvenal, which leads to an infinite sequence of guards, and one idealistic, derived from the Platonic dialogues. The guard cannot get drunk,...
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Este trabajo analiza el impacto causal del pago de las transferencias monetarias condicionadas (TMC) del programa Familias en Acción en la tasa de violencia intrafamiliar a nivel municipal en Colombia. Al analizar la variación exógena de estos pagos en el tiempo y el espacio, se encuentra que...
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