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Does anticipation training affect drivers' risk taking?
McKenna, F. P.; Horswill, M. S.; Alexander, J. L. - 2006
Skill and risk taking are argued to be independent and to require different remedial programs. However, it is possible to contend that skill-based training could be associated with an increase, a decrease, or no change in fisk-taking behavior. In 3 experiments, the authors examined the influence...
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Economic and environmental impacts of pollution control in a system of environment and economic interdependence
Leeves, GD; Herbert, RD - 2002
The importance of the rate of change of the pollution stock in determining the damage to the environment has been an issue of increasing concern in the literature. This paper uses a three-sector (economy, population and environment), non-linear, discrete time, calibrated model to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448028
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Mathematical models of skin permeability: An overview
Mitragotri, Samir; Anissimov, Yuri G.; Bunge, Annette L.; … - 2011
Mathematical models of skin permeability play an important role in various ?elds including prediction of transdermal … the establishment of rigorous structure-based models. In addition to establishing the necessary mathematical framework to …
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Dynamic Dumping
Berck, Peter; Perloff, Jeffrey M - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1988
A low-cost foreign firm lowers its initially high price--dumping if necessary--until it drives the higher cost domestic firms out of business,whereupon it raises its price. At no time, however, does the foreign firm predate (price below its marginal cost). Tariffs, quotas, and other policies...
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Weintraub on the evolution of mathematical economics: a review essay
Jr, J. Barkley Rosser - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 25 (2003) 4, pp. 575-589
This essay discusses the implications for the evolution of mathematical economics of the ideas presented in E. Roy … Weintraub's How Economics Became a Mathematical Science . A central issue in the discussion is the nature of formalism and … axiomatization in mathematical economics, how that has evolved in mathematics, and how that evolution has influenced developments in …
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Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies
Hansen, Lars Peter; Sargent, Thomas J. - Princeton University Press
A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive …
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Is "mathematical science" an oxymoron when used to describe economics?
Davidson, Paul - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 25 (2003) 4, pp. 527-545
This paper interprets Weintraub's book, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science , to suggest why Keynes's General … meant by "rigor" and "proof" in mathematical analysis? Mathematicians' and economists' views about these concepts keep …'s analysis shows that the mathematical scientist emperor of mainstream economics is without clothes. …
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Testing Invariance in Risk Taking: A Comparison Between Anglophone and Francophone Groups
Blais, Ann-Renée; Weber, Elke U. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006
This article investigates the measurement invariance of 3 related constructs across 2 groups sampled from Anglophone and Francophone adult populations. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses explored the factor structures of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) Scale (Weber, Blais, &...
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When adolescents receive sexual messages on the internet: explaining experiences of risk and harm
Livingstone, Sonia; Görzig, Anke - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This article reports new findings on the incidence of risk and the associated experience of harm reported by children and adolescents aged 11–16, regarding receipt of sexual messages on the internet (known popularly as sexting). Findings showed that the main predictors of the risk of seeing or...
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Essays on Behavioral Labor Economics
Mellizo, Philip Pablo - 2010
organization in consideration of the literature developed in behavioral and experimental economics. I argue that many models of … that have been systematically demonstrated in experimental studies. After providing an extensive review of the experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468039