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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522305
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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535776
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Experimental labor markets and policy considerations : incomplete contracts and macroeconomic aspects
Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno - 2012
studying the interaction between taxation and labor market outcomes. -- laboratory experiment ; labor markets ; incomplete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683305
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Dictator games : a meta study
Engel, Christoph - 2010
Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study explores a rich set of control variables for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947376
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Models of caring, or acting as if one cared, about the welfare of others
Rotemberg, Julio - In: Annual review of economics 6 (2014), pp. 129-154
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380008
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221678
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Are groups more rational than individuals? : a review of interactive decision making in groups
Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin - 2012
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
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Some considerations regarding the problem of multidimensional utility
Binder, Martin - 2009
The concept of "utility" is often used in ambiguous ways in economics, from having substantive psychological … conceive of utility. It turns out that empirical evidence does not favor a view of multidimensional utility. This does not … eliminate the possibility to make a normative argument supporting a multidimensional notion of utility. -- utility ; pleasures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905687
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The benefit-transfer challenges
Boyle, Kevin J.; Kuminoff, Nicolai V.; Parmeter, … - In: Annual review of resource economics 2 (2010), pp. 161-182
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