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Fatigue in dynamic tournaments
Ryvkin, Dmitry - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2009
promotions are awarded, explicitly or implicitly, on the basis of relative performance. In this paper, we propose a theory for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005035016
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Punishment strategies in repeated games: Evidence from experimental markets
Wright, Julian - In: Games and Economic Behavior 82 (2013) C, pp. 91-102
An experiment is designed to provide a snapshot of the strategies used by players in a repeated price competition game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049890
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The internal consistency of the standard gamble: tests after adjusting for prospect theory
Oliver, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
prospect theory framework, (2) loss weighting and full probability transformation, (3) no loss weighting and full probability …. Of the five alternatives, only the prospect theory formulation with loss weighting and no probability transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928594
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The Future of Health Economics: The Potential of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Hansen, Fredrik; Anell, Anders; Gerdtham, Ulf-G; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013
The health care systems in the Nordic countries are facing key challenges. While the possibilities and willingness to expand health care resources are limited, the demand for health care are increasing due to continuous development of new medical technologies, changing demographics, increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272727
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2011
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353440
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Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex
Borghans, José A. M.; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This research develops a theory and presents empirical evidence of a link between economic outcomes and genetic …. The theory incorporates properties of the MHC in a model of mutual dependence and exhibits a trade-off in which every …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822373
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The design and analysis of stochastic cost-effectiveness studies for the evaluation of health care interventions
Briggs, Andrew; Tambour, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1998
Many clinical trials are in progress which involve the collection of patient-level data on both the health outcome and resource use consequences of the health care interventions under evaluation. The overall aim of many such evaluations will be to undertake a cost-effectiveness analysis, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649374
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149131
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The formation of human capital is important for a society’s welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024591
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Organ donation in the lab: Preferences and votes on the priority rule
Herr, Annika; Normann, Hans-Theo - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2015
implementing a vote on the rule in a donation experiment, and we also elicit opinion poll-like views. We find that two-thirds of … the participants voted for the priority rule in the experiment. When asked about real-world implementation, participants … of the donation experiment were more likely to support the rule than non-participants. We further confirm previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168713