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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Dürsch, Peter - 2010
Chapter IWe use a large-scale internet experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers that are programmed to follow one of a number of standard learning algorithms. The learning theories are (unbeknown to subjects) a best response process, fictitious play, imitation,...
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Microcredit
Heverly, Barbara M.; Tierney, Lori L. - 0000
how microcredit can provide access to hope. This paper explores the impact of world poverty on the world’s poorest of the … microcredit lending is having on the world; the types of microenterprises run by borrowers and the impact they have on their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467449
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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.
Harrelson-Stephens, Julie - 2003
At the end of World War II, the United States emerged as a world leader, putting into place international institutions … based on its own liberal economic philosophy. Since then, the world has witnessed an increasing interconnectedness among … between state and societal forces. Much of the world associates this increased interconnectedness with human suffering around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475090
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Repression and Newtwork Science: Tools in Fight against Terrorism
Wright, Dominick' E - 2010
a world of potential with few advances, in thearea of theoretical evaluation, and therefore large amount of work ahead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477422
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R&D spillovers and the case for industrial policy in open economies
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter - 1999
In this paper we consider the case for subsidies towards firms which generate R&D spillovers in open economies. We show that in the presence of strategic behaviour by firms many expected results are overturned. Local R&D spillovers to other domestic firms may justify an R&D tax rather than a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441564
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Regional integration of equity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Piesse J.; Hearn B. - 2005
Equity markets in developing and emerging economies have grown in number and importance as a result of financial market globalisation. However, their role in economic growth and development is enhanced if nascent markets are integrated with well-established ones. Market integration, measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480491
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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty
van der Berg S.; Louw M. - 2004
This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow us to evaluate income, distribution across time, reducing dependence on the vagaries associated with individual surveys. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480492
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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics
Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005
Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...
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Internationale Konjunkturverbunde/International Business Cycles
Graff, Michael - 2006
interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …
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