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Inequality across the Generations in North America and Europe
Corak, Miles - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 4, pp. 34-39
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
driving forces are used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and … regions (China, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of … show that the decision to perform innovation activities abroad is mainly driven by organisational capabilities such as …
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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished
Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460
with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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Choosing the Joneses : Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
Knell, Markus; Falk, Armin - 2004
A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast findings from social...
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Contracts, biases and consumption of access services
Leider, Stephen G.; Sahin, Özge - 2012
We consider a consumption model that takes into account the valuation and demand uncertainties that consumers face while using access services. Typical examples of such services include telecommunication services, extended warranties for consumer electronics, and club memberships. We demonstrate...
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Das hybride Wahlmodell und seine Anwendung im Marketing
Dannewald, Till; Kreis, Henning; Silberhorn, Nadja - 2007
Traditional choice models assume that observable behavior results from an unspecified evaluation process of the observed individual. When it comes to the revelation of this process mere choice models rapidly meet their boundaries, as psychological factors (e.g., consumers' perception or...
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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329049
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On the prevalence of framing effects across subject-pools in a two-person cooperation game
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Walkowitz, Gari - 2010
In this experimental study, involving subjects from Abu-Dis (West Bank), Chengdu (China), Helsinki (Finland), and … decision problems within (cross-cultural) research on subject-pool differences. …
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Optimism, pessimism and the unforeseen: Modelling an endogenous business cycle driven by strong beliefs
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2002
Indicators of trust, confidence, optimism or sentiment among consumers and/or investors, are published continuously in the mass media. More importantly, these indices seem not only to reflect how the state of the real economy is perceived by private agents, but can also help predict the future...
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The euro through the looking-glass: Perceived inflation following the 2002 currency changeover
Lunn, Pete; Duffy, David - 2010
Following the Euro changeover in January 2002, consumers across the Euro Area perceived a sharp rise in inflation, in contrast to official figures. Several theories have been advanced to explain this apparent economic illusion, but they struggle to account for its striking scale and persistence....
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