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I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
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This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by …
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Das DIW Berlin hat im vergangenen Jahr im Auftrag der Deutsche Telekom Stiftung und des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) einen Gesamtindikator der Innovationsfähigkeit für Deutschland und weitere 12 weltweit führende Industrieländer entwickelt. Dabei wurden neben der...
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behaviour are scarce in the field of migration research. Based on the previous intentions and actual migration, four groups … wave were almost three and a half times more likely to move than non-planners. Based on Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour … we have also analysed the role of migrationrelated expectations and subjective norms in migration behaviour. Migration …
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An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept … of opinion copulas, argue that it is well supported by findings in Social Psychology and use it to show that the …
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state of the world will occur, and a non-expert decision-maker, who takes action according to his posterior beliefs. The … decision-maker considers the expert an experiment of uncertain reliability and takes the received messages as the outcomes of … such an experiment. The model of the expert in the decision-maker's mind bears no relation with any measure of the expert …
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adaptation. A categorization is introduced that accounts for asymmetries in misprediction. In decision-making, goods and …
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Eine zentrale Aufgabe des Rechts besteht darin, das Zusammenleben in der Gesellschaft durch formale Regeln zu gewährleisten und diese gegebenenfalls an veränderte Anforderungen der Umwelt anzupassen. Dazu offnen sich Rechtswissenschaft und -praxis verstarkt gegenüber Befunden aus...
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German newspapers and the business press since the 1990s could have influenced the processes of decision-making over …
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