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Cognitive and institutional perspectives of eco effiency: A new research landscape towards factor four (or more)
Bleischwitz, Raimund - 2002
The paper sketches out a theoretical framework for analysing the interplaybetween eco-efficiency, cognition and …. It emphasises therole cognition and institutions play in the adoption of green technologies byfirms. A cognitive … findings can serve toanalyse decision-making of individual actors or firms and, thus, should complement economic analysis. A …
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Cognition and behavior in two-person guessing games: An experimental study
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Crawford, Vincent P. - 2004
of the behavior implied by leading decision rules and makes monitoring search a powerful tool for studying cognition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332279
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Past experience, cognitive frames, and entrepreneurship: some econometric evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry
Bhaduri, Saradindu; Worch, Hagen - 2008
The theoretical literature identifies three important entrepreneurial dimensions, namely discovering new opportunities, responsiveness to uncertainty, and coordination of a firm. In the empirical literature, past experience has been identified as having an important influence on organizational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266716
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Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey
MacArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - 2009
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269015
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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2013
education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500243
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Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age
Christelis, Dimitris; Dobrescu, Loretti I.; Motta, Alberto - 2011
Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308548
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321132
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios … changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280717
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Hard evidence on soft skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of cognitive ability like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282367
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The power of reasoning: Experimental evidence
Dugar, Subhasish; Bhattacharya, Haimanti - 2008
This paper presents an experimental investigation of how a systematic variation in the cognitive demands on subjects affects the optimal play. The innovation of this paper is the choice of a game, which we call the Game of Position. This is a two-player zerosum game characterized by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288060