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initially but known once the product is consumed. We show that this uncertainty generates an information cost of exporting, over … heterogeneity, the level of information and the measure of available intermediaries. …
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Many disasters are foreshadowed by insuficient preventive care. In this paper, we argue that there is a true problem of prevention, in that insu¢ cient care is often the result of rational calculations on the part of agents. We identify two factors that lead to dubious e¤orts in care. First,...
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concerning the next period value of the control variable (consumption) are formed through adaptive learning. In such scenario … requirement regarding the quality of learning in the long run equilibrium is fulfilled. Therefore, stability of growth under … learning is dependentent on the efficiency with which expectations are generated. …
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individual investors' investment return. Design/methodology/approach–By introducing the heterogeneous attention, the authors …
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control treatments, receive information resulting from the previous period’s evaluations. There are three information … treatments: Participants receive information either about their own evaluation or about their partner’s evaluation or both …. Although participants condition their contributions on their partners’ evaluations, this information alone is insuf?cient to …
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from marketing/sales purposes, the managers/entrepreneurs used phone for the gathering of information, for product delivery …
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This paper investigates the impact of uncertainty on an irreversible investment decisions in the laboratory. Subjects own the option to seize a claim on the future sum of realizations from an (ambiguous) random walk. I contrast model predicitions of the Subjective Expected Utility model (SEU,...
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We embed a two-sided matching market with non-transferable utility, a marriage market, into a random search model. We study steadystate equilibria and characterize the limit of the corresponding equilibrium matchings as exogenous search frictions become small. The central question is whether the...
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This paper is an attempt to introduce a different perspective on the relationship between knowledge and territorial development. Today, knowledge can be seen as essentially mobile and regions will prosper to the extend that they can anchor it and develop it further locally. Knowledge is then...
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This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to...
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