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Information aggregation in Poisson elections
Ekmekci, Mehmet; Lauermann, Stephan - In: Theoretical Economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...
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Information aggregation in Poisson elections
Ekmekci, Mehmet; Lauermann, Stephan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806603
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Understanding international commodity price fluctuations
Arezki, Rabah; Loungani, Prakash; Ploeg, Frederick van der - In: Journal of international money and finance 42 (2014), pp. 1-8
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y. C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population … strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban migrants. The importance of these expectations for life satisfaction is … particularly pronounced in the urban areas, though also highly significant for the rural area. If expectations were to reverse from …
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Eine ökonomische Revolution : Wie Verhaltensökonomie die Welt verändert
von Holle, Vinzenz - 2019
Die Grundannahmen und Theorien der Ökonomie seit Adam Smith und Karl Marx scheinen heutzutage (mehr als) überholt. Dieses Buch eröffnet Lesenden eine neue, ganzheitliche Perspektive auf ökonomische, soziale und politische Fragestellungen. Mit Hilfe eines verhaltenstheoretischen Ansatzes und...
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Eine ökonomische Revolution : wie Verhaltensökonomie die Welt verändert
Holle, Vinzenz von - 2019
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Comparative politics and quasi-rational markets
McMenamin, Iain; Breen, Michael; Muñoz-Portillo, Juan - In: New political economy 21 (2016) 6, pp. 587-605
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Vicious and Virtuous Circles - The Political Economy of Unemployment in Interwar UK and USA
Matthews, Kent; Minford, Patrick; Naraidoo, Ruthira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper develops a political economy model of multiple unemployment equilibria to provide a theory of an endogenous natural rate of unemployment. This model is applied to the UK and the US interwar period which is remembered as the decade of mass unemployment. The theory here sees the natural...
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Societal Trust and the Economic Behavior of Non-Profit Organizations
Felix, Robert - 2018
This study explores the impact of societal trust on the economic behavior of nonprofit organizations. Although prior studies reveal that trust has a positive impact on the economic behavior of for-profit firms, the institutional differences between the two organization types make it unclear...
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