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The goal of this paper is to draw some lessons for economic theory from research in psychology, social psychology and …, more briefly, in biology, which purports to explain the «formation» of social preferences. We elicit the basic mechanisms …
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, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic look at issues … acquisition of suffrage; and political representation. Throughout, Eswaran applies sound economic analysis and new modeling …
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, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic look at issues … acquisition of suffrage; and political representation. Throughout, Eswaran applies sound economic analysis and new modeling …
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Film studios occasionally withhold movies from critics before their release. Because the unreviewed movies tend to be below average in quality, this practice provides a useful setting in which to test models of limited strategic thinking: Do moviegoers seem to realize that no review is a sign of...
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This paper analyzes the duration of house price upturns and downturns in the last 40 years for 19 OECD countries. I provide two sets of results, one pertaining to the average length and the other to the length distribution. On average, upturns are longer than downturns, but the difference...
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Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
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