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Immediate Disclosure or Secrecy? The Release of Information in Experimental Asset Markets

Ackert, Lucy; Church, Bryan K.; Gillette, Ann B. - 2004

This paper reports the results of experimental asset markets designed to investigate how the public disclosure of uncertain information affects market and individual outcomes. In some markets, no information is released as trading starts, and in others, an imperfect pre-announcement is...

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Women’s representation in politics : voter bias, party bias, and electoral systems

González Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos

Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...

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Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions

De Hoyos, R. E. - 2006

The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions …. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency … between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the multinomial participation equations is achieved via a two-step estimation …

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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones

Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010

Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...

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Decision-Making and Ecosystem-Based Management: Applying the Vroom-Yetton Model to Public Participation Strategy

Daniels, Steven E.; Lawrence, Rick L.; Alig, Ralph J. - 1996

Previous literature has been critical of public participation practices, finding unimpressive application of public … participation principles and low levels of public satisfaction. Ecosystem-based management generally involves mixed land ownerships … participation and the difficulty of selecting appropriate public involvement mechanisms. To help solve the problem of choosing among …

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Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

Campbell, John; Calvert, Lauren E.; Sodini, Paolo - 2009

Economics

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