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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
government'. To restrain government manipulation one has to turn to Constitutional Economics and increase the possibilities for …
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Heterogeneous Agent Models in Economics and Finance
Hommes, Cars H. - 2005
This paper surveys work on dynamic heterogeneous agent models (HAMs) in economics and finance. Emphasis is given to simple models that, at least to some extent, are tractable by analytic methods in combination with computational tools. Most of these models are behavioral models with boundedly...
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Erfolgreiche Interaktion mit Digital Natives im Social Commerce: Eine theoretische und explorative Analyse von Erfolgsfaktoren in der Kunden-Kunden-Kommunikation
Ziehe, Nikola; Stevens, Sarah - 2012
Eine Vielzahl von Herausforderung stellt die kommerzielle Verbreitung des Internets und die damit verbundene bidirektionale Kommunikation nicht nur zwischen Konsumenten und Unternehmen, sondern ebenso unter Konsumenten, für Unternehmen dar. Die Unternehmen stehen vor der Notwendigkeit, die...
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
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They're Natural and Everywhere: How Evaluative Practices Permeate the Organization
Maier, Florentine; Brandl, Julia - In: BuR - Business Research 1 (2008) 1, pp. 78-92
How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...
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Autonomously Interacting Banks
Lengwiler, Yvan; Maringer, Dietmar - 2011
The great financial turmoil that started 2007 has brought bank regulation back into the political debate. There is talk about imposing new regulations on banks and other financial intermediaries. Yet, we are not convinced that it is completely understood how the existing regulation affects...
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Firms formation and growth in the model with heterogeneous agents and monitoring
Marko, Peter; Švarc, Petr - 2008
In this article we extend the agent-based model of firms' formation and growth proposed in [4]. In [4] the firms' creation, expansion or contraction results from the interaction of heterogeneous utility maximizers. While the original model was able to replicate the power law distribution in the...
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Price Rigidity and Strategic Uncertainty An Agent-based Approach
Somogyi, Róbert; Vincze, János - 2011
The phenomenon of infrequent price changes has troubled economists for decades. Intuitively one feels that for most price-setters there exists a range of inaction, i.e. a substantial measure of the states of the world, within which they do not wish to modify prevailing prices. However, basic...
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Kompleksite Iktisadı ve Ajan-Temelli Modelleme: Metodolojik Bir Yaklaşım
Eren, Ercan - 2013
Son yıllarda iktisat yazınında disiplinler arası çalışmaların sayısı giderek artmaktadır. Bu ilginin altında, doğrusal ve statik modellere dayanan klasik iktisat teorisinin modellerinin, gerçekte kompleks/karmaşık özellik gösteren yapıları çözümlemede yetersiz kalması...
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Zur Manipulierbarkeit der Allokation öffentlicher Güter: Theoretische Analyse und Simulationsergebnisse
Lindner, Tobias - 2011
(nämlich auf metrisch eingipflige Präferenzen) einschränkt. Um ferner zu untersuchen, wie anfällig für Manipulation sowohl … beurteilt werden. Die Ergebnisse der Simulation zeigen dabei sowohl solche Abstimmungsregeln, die bezüglich des Messkonzepts … stark manipulierbar sind, als auch solche Regeln, unter denen das Auftreten und die Effekte von Manipulation gering …
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