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Ch'ng, Kean Siang - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 25-41

factory. Field experiment was conducted to test the behavioral reaction of employees to fines in two different conditions. In … enforcement policy. -- punishment ; inequity aversion ; social norm ; individual lateness , experiment …

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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? ; una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar

Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51

This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...

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Behavioral biases in economic and financial knowledge : are they the same for men and women?

Kudryavtsev, Andrey; Cohen, Gil - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 15-52

our study is to analyze the role of the hindsight bias (Fischhoff [20]) and the anchoring bias (Tversky and Kahneman [53 … biases. Hindsight bias denotes people's tendency to overestimate, in hindsight, how predictable an outcome was in foresight …, while anchoring bias refers to people's tendency to form their estimates for different categories, starting from a …

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Does increased price competition reduce entry of new pharmaceutical products?

Granlund, David; Rudholm, Niklas - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-14

In October 2002, a substitution reform was introduced in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market. In this paper, the effects of increased price competition due to the reform on the entry of new pharmaceutical products were studied. The results show that the reform did affect the entry behavior of...

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Wenn sich Warten lohnt : der Effekt von Unsicherheit auf Investitionsentscheidungen

Viefers, Paul - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 4, pp. 11-16

Das amerikanische Politmagazin Foreign Policy befragte zwischen August und September 2012 insgesamt 62 bekannte US-Ökonomen, worin sie die Hauptursache für die schleppende Erholung des Arbeitsmarkts sehen. Am häufigsten genannt wurde "Unsicherheit" (31 Prozent). Was ist mit diesem Begriff...

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Disclosure of medical information in health insurance

Rahkovsky, Ilya - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 183-205

Disclosure of private medical information allows insurance companies to better predict medical expenditures. The premiums the companies charge the insured employees reflect these expenditures. This paper studies incentives of employees to disclose their medical information. I find that healthier...

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The exchange of knowledge : a case study

Felice, Annunziata de; Matucci, Isabella; Schirone, Dario A. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 67-82

The Brundtland Report (1987) is the first formalization of the relationship between development and environment: "Development is sustainable if it meets the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In the sixties and seventies,...

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Who came first : politicians or academic economists?

Lönnroth, Johan - In: History of economic thought and policy 2 (2013) 1, pp. 121-140

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A methodology for combining biased demand

Utley, Joanne - In: Advances in business and management forecasting 9 (2013), pp. 171-183

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