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This dissertation addresses a basic difficulty in accommodating other-regarding preferences within existing models of decision making. Decision makers with such preferences may violate the property of stochastic dominance that is shared by both expected utility and almost any model of...
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Experimental evidence stresses the importance of so-called social preferences for understanding economic behavior. Social preferences are defined over the entire allocation in a given economic environment, and not just over one's own consumption as is traditionally presumed. We study the...
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Organizational identification has been regarded as a new control strategy for modem organizations. High levels of organizational members' identification result in various benefits to organizational performance.Among organizational theorists there exists a strong school of thought, which sees...
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Einwanderungsverhinderungspolitik anstatt Einwanderung zu regeln, zugestalten und die Integration von Einwanderern zu fördern.Unter der Prämisse, daß … immigration and to foster the integrationof immigrants.Under the premise Germany could learn from the immigration and integration …
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This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation oninvestment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and contentproviders (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show thatthe ISP s decision on the introduction of discrimination across contentdepends on a...
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The purpose of this paper is to understand why a host country (HC) shows ex post opportunistic behaviors in E&P projects and frequently forces international oil companies (IOCs) to renegotiate previously signed contracts. This research employs the concept of asset specificity and hold-up problem...
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influences of altruism and bravery in the evolution of heroism. Our study found that females do prefer risk-prone brave males to … factor influencing female choice of short-term partners, long-term partners, and male friends, with altruism playing a lesser … part in their choice. Altruism was deemed important in long-term relationships and friendships, but for short-term liaisons …
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Resource transfers among households have received considerable interest among economists in recent years. Two of the main reasons for the surge of interest in household transfers are the information on human nature conveyed by transfer behavior and the implication on income redistribution policy...
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Two books edited by members of the MacArthur Norms and Preferences Network (an interdisciplinary group, mainly anthropologists and economists) are reviewed here. These books in large part reflect a renewed interest in group selectionthat has occurred among these researchers: they promote the...
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