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Research and Science Today Supplement No.1(3)/2012

Bădilă, Andreea Iuliana; Sucilă căs. Pahoni, Cipriana; … - 2012

Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...

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Language and argumentation in the controversy economic

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

This article offers an approach to the general structure of the controversy in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the advantages of the free commerce between Daly...

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Entry in Beauty-Contest Games

Sanchez Villalba, Miguel; Martinez Gorricho, Silvia - 2017

We study how voluntary participation in Beauty Contest Games (BCGs) affects the actions and payoffs of type-heterogenous players. In a BCG, players have two goals --one personal, the other social-- and so BCGs appropriately model relevant economic situations like participating in a social...

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Punish and Perish?

Antoci, Angelo; Zarri, Luca - 2011

The evolution of large-scale cooperation among genetic strangers is a fundamental unanswered question in the social sciences. Behavioral economics has persuasively shown that so called ‘strong reciprocity’ plays a key role in accounting for the endogenous enforcement of cooperation. Insofar...

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Beauty, Polygyny, and Fertility: Theory and Evidence

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou; Pongou, Roland - 2014

We propose a simple model of a mating economy in both monogamous and polygynous cultures, and derive implications for how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed,...

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Bridging the Attitude-Preference-Gap: A Cognitive Approach To Preference Formation

Schmitt, Rebecca - 2015

This paper provides a descriptive decision model that is based on a single behavioral pattern: human beings strive for consistency between what they do, what they think and what they perceive. This pattern manifests in the decision maker’s aim to bring his attitudes, beliefs and behavior into...

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Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil

Wichmann, Bruno; Wichmann, Roberta - In: Health Economics Review 10 (2020) 37, pp. 1-10

primary care in urban Brazil. Our goal is to use flexible estimates to identify heterogeneous returns and complementarities … the novelty of nonparametric insights. Results: The nonparametric results show significantly heterogeneity of returns to … identifies complementarities between capital and labor, which is essential in designing efficient policy interventions. For …

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Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil

Wichmann, Bruno; Wichmann, Roberta - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 37, pp. 1-10

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Technology Choice and Incentives under Relative Performance Schemes

Schöttner, Anja; Kräkel, Matthias - 2010

We identify a new problem that may arise when heterogeneous workers are motivated by relative performance schemes: If workers' abilities and the production technology are complements, the firm may prefer not to adopt a more advanced technology even though this technology would costlessly...

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Technology Choice and Incentives under Relative Performance Schemes

Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2010

We identify a new problem that may arise when heterogeneous workers are motivated by relative performance schemes: If workers’ abilities and the production technology are complements, the firm may prefer not to adopt a more advanced technology even though this technology would costlessly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271450