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Schmidt, Christian - In: Revue d'économie politique 118 (2008) 1, pp. 7-34

various contributions of this neuroeconomic approach to three main economic domains: The individual decision-making, the risk …

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Two Additional Remarks on Conformism

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Abstract This note offers two comments on the article “Social Influences towards Conformism in Economic Experiments” by Hargreaves Heap that is to appear in the Economics e-Journal. One relates to the concept of conformism, the other lines out some phenomena where an explicit recognition of...

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Gender in Committees

Dufwenberg, Martin; Muren, Astri - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2003

learned regarding the influence of gender composition on committee decision-making more generally. …

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On the relationship between individual and group decisions

Sobel, Joel - In: Theoretical Economics 9 (2014) 1

Each member of a group receives a signal about the unknown state of the world and decides upon a utility-maximizing recommendation on the basis of that signal. The individuals have identical preferences. The group makes a decision that maximizes the common utility function assuming perfect...

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Group diversity and decision quality: Amplification and attenuation of the framing effect

Yaniv, Ilan - In: International Journal of Forecasting 27 (2011) 1, pp. 41-49

over individuals in decision-making depends on the group composition. Our study used susceptibility to the framing effect … as a measure of decision quality. Individuals were assigned to one of two perspectives on a choice problem. The … asked to consider the same (or a related) choice problem as a group. Homogeneous groups were composed of similarly framed …

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Income distribution in Romania

Molnar, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper presents the main results of a study on income distribution during 1995-2008 years, which central concern is the measurement of income inequality and polarization in Romania. A set of indices (S80/S20, Gini, Atkinson and Theil, for inequality; Foster-Wolfson, Milanovic, Wang-Tsui,...

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Cultural differences in risk: The group facilitation effect

Kim, Do-Yeong; Park, Junsu - In: Judgment and Decision Making 5 (2010) 5, pp. 380-390

Koreans, regardless of gender composition, were willing to take greater risks when making decisions in group decision-making …

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Income Polarization In Romania

Molnar, Maria - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2011) 2, pp. 64-83

This article presents the results of a study devoted to the measurement of the income polarization in Romania. In the first part the key methodological issues of measuring polarization are addressed, with emphasis on the polarization indices. To measure the polarization of the household incomes...

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A measure of multidimensional polarization for categorical diversity data

Trezzini, Bruno - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 1, pp. 313-333

Numerous indices measuring the degree of heterogeneity or homogeneity of small and large social entities exist. However, only recently has interest in multidimensional inequality and diversity grown. The novelty lies in looking at multiple dimensions of diversity simultaneously by asking how it...

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Natura naturans, natura naturata

Uyl, Douglas - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 27 (2014) 2, pp. 175-182

In this paper, which is concerned with philosophical methodology as it might affect social science and ethics, the endeavor is to explore the depth and implications of Buchanan’s interest in Spinoza. After establishing their connection, the paper explores the parallels between Spinoza’s...

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