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Homo oeconomicus and behavioral economics
Brzezicka, Justyna; Wisniewski, Radosław - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 4, pp. 353-364
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in behavioral trends in both economic theory and practical applications …
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Behavioral public choice : a survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014
Public choice theory has originally been motivated by the need to correct the asymmetry, widespread in traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238281
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Behavioral political economy : a survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014
Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412852
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Economic behavior : evolutionary vs. behavioral perspectives
Witt, Ulrich - 2010
An evolutionary perspective on economic behavior has to account for the influences that the human genetic endowment has on the choices the agents make. Likely to have been fixed in times of fierce selection pressure, this endowment is presumably adapted to the living conditions of early humans....
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Copyright Arbitrage
Garcia, Kristelia - 2019
Regulatory arbitrage — defined as the manipulation of regulatory treatment for the purpose of reducing regulatory costs or increasing statutory earnings — is often seen in heavily-regulated industries. An increase in the regulatory nature of copyright, coupled with rapid technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899681
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Experimental Criminal Law. A Survey of Contributions from Law, Economics and Criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in experimental economics, and an experimental criminology. These three disciplines have surprisingly little interaction. The current paper surveys the rich evidence, and discusses the...
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Self-confidence and strategic deterrence
Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191082
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Psychological versus Economic Models of Bounded Rationality
Ross, Don - 2013
That the rationality of individual people is ‘bounded’ – that is, finite in scope and representational reach, and constrained by the opportunity cost of time – cannot reasonably be controversial as an empirical matter. In this context, the paper addresses the question as to why, if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150388
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Rational After All : Toward an Improved Theory of Rationality in Economics
Foka-Kavalieraki, Yulie; Hatzis, Aristides N. - 2011
In this paper we critically review the literature on rational choice theory (RCT) and the critical approaches to it. We … will present a concise description of the theory as defended by Gary Becker, Richard Posner and James Coleman (as well as … neuroeconomics. Our intention is to present an improved theory of rational choice that, informed from the above discussion, will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190167
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Homo Oeconomicus and Behavioral Economics
Brzezicka, Justyna - 2015
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in behavioral trends in both economic theory and practical applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030597