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Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Heuristic Search

MacLeod, W. Bentley - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 1 (2002) 1

role of emotion in rational choice theory. …

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Capital Budgeting with Taxes under Uncertainty and Irreversibility / Investitionsplanung mit Steuern bei Unsicherheit und Irreversibilität

Niemann, Rainer; Sureth, Caren - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 1, pp. 77-95

neutrality and risk aversion for irreversible investment projects. Integrating taxes into real option theory, it can be shown … irreversiblen Investitionen unter Risikoneutralität und Risikoaversion. Durch Integration der Besteuerung in realoptionsbasierte … Risikoneutralität zu identischen Investitionsentscheidungen führen. Unter Risikoaversion dagegen benötigt contingent claims analysis ein …

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What drives international remittances to Africa : Altruism, self-interest or the institutional environment?

Nnyanzi, John Bosco - In: African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 7 (2016) 3, pp. 397-418

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the macro-economic and institutional drivers of remittance inflows to Africa. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses an enhanced gravity model in a random effects framework to test two hypotheses dominant in literature as well as the...

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Relative deprivation, self-interest and social justice: why I do research on in-equality

S.W. Ng, Eddy - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33 (2014) 5, pp. 429-441

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an insight into why men do research on in-equality. Design/methodology/approach – The author utilizes autoethnography, as a form of self-reflection, to help make sense of the own experiences and to connect it with the broader world. It is a...

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Individual and society in an Islamic ethical framework : Exploring key terminologies and the micro-foundations of Islamic economics

Furqani, Hafas - In: Humanomics 31 (2015) 1, pp. 74-87

Purpose – The paper aims to produce new key terminologies for the microfoundations of Islamic economics. The paper attempts to investigate the microfoundations of Islamic economics by exploring new perspective in the key concepts and key terminologies that would explain the behavior of...

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Is this network for you or for me? The pursuit of self and collective interests in a strategic network

Munksgaard, Kristin Balslev - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 30 (2015) 3/4, pp. 279-289

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the inter-relatedness of business goals among firms in strategic networks by exploring the following research question: How do different business goals coexist in networks? When joining a strategic...

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Sex, benevolence and willingness to pay for screening

Whynes, David; Sach, Tracey - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 10, pp. 982-997

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a contingent valuation (CV) survey of health care services, designed to illuminate self-interest and benevolence on the part of one sex for the other. Design/methodology/approach In a constructed scenario, men and women recorded how...

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Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - In: The World Bank Economic Review 26 (2012) 2, pp. 191-216

What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types of policy decisions that have been delegated to local politicians—beneficiary selection for transfer programs and the allocation of within-village public...

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Supervisor bottom-line mentality and subordinate knowledge hiding: role of team climate

Zhang, Bin; Yang, Qizhong; Hao, Qi - In: Management Decision 62 (2024) 12, pp. 4165-4183

Purpose Drawing on social information processing theory, this study constructs a multilevel moderated mediation model …

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What Model Best Describes Initial Choices in a Cournot Duopoly Experiment?

Runco, Mariano Gabriel - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 5 (2016) 2, pp. 31-45

This paper tests empirically four models of bounded rationality using data from first responses in a Cournot duopoly experiment. Specifically, the models considered are Level-k, Quantal Response Equilibrium, Noisy Introspection and Logit Cognitive Hierarchy. It is found that the Level-k model...

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