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Einkommensbesteuerung und deren Wahrnehmung auf die Arbeit-Freizeit-Entscheidungen untersucht wird.Im ersten Experiment des ersten Teils …
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gap between numerous studies by non-economists (e.g., psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and legal … scholars) and the fact that economists began to investigate the role of procedures only recently. Thus, there is still an … important research agenda to be developed by economists. The dissertation contributes to this by investigating the underlying …
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Chapter 1: Efficient Design of an Auction with Discrete Bid Levels This paper studies one of auction design issues: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than one bidder who submits the same bid, the auction cannot...
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Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...
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losses have disproportionately negative impact on local communities. Economists generally argue that free and unimpeded …
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Universities represent a highly complex organizational structure that is beset with serious informational problems. A simplistic allocation rule based on university rankings is sometimes applied to fund disciplines/departments in order to promote efficiency. This study shows the pitfalls of...
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It is somewhat common for heterodox economists to come to the defense of neoclassical microeconomic theory. This is due … to many reasons, but perhaps the commonest one is ignorance. It seems that most heterodox economists are not aware of the …
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current economic issues. This has implications for the acceptance of economic policy since these economists are apt to uphold … the interests of their employer. In contrast, academic economists suffer from a lack of recognition and reach in the media … generation of academic economists, in contrast to previous generations, is becoming reticent on matters of public policy. …
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controlled lab study, a longer field experiment (betting on the NBA playoffs and the soccer World Cup), and naturally …
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All three articles in my dissertation gather information from individuals, analyze it, and aggregate that information into forecasts of upcoming events. The motivation is to make forecasts more efficient (accurate and timely), more versatile (provide the most useful information for each...
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