Although there is still no consensus on the causes of large differences in income per capita across countries, a growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions...

We introduce a computer program which calculates an agent’s optimal behavior according to Case-based Decision Theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler, 1995) and use it to test CBDT against a benchmark set of problems from the psychological literature on human classification learning (Shepard et al.,...

This paper offers a simple but powerful model of wishful thinking, cognitive dissonance, and related biases. Choices maximize subjective expected utility, but beliefs depend on the decision maker's interests as well as on relevant information. Simplifying assumptions yield a representation in...

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being more likely to choose competitive incentive schemes, even when factors such as ability and risk aversion are controlled for. This paper examines the effect of information on the...

Informatics, especially the Internet, represents a new approach for the teacher interested in new methods of teaching foreign languages. More and more attracted to the Internet, the students will combine what is necessary with what is pleasant in learning rapidly a language for special purposes....

The present paper deals with the problems verbal communication conducts to in the tourism sector. Language plays a major role in determining the causes and the means of overcoming communication barriers. The theoretical part of the present paper sustains the importance of various elements verbal...

The present paper explores the genre of restaurant menus by analyzing existing online lists of breakfast, lunch and dinner options. It shows that a menu is a reflection of the restaurant itself and its vocabulary, whether formal, casual or playful, matches the restaurant concept, location or...

In the context of the knowledge based economy, more and more organizations discover again the unexhausted force of human resources as the active, creative and innovational factor of modern society. The powerful development of the information and communication technology has favored and imposed...

In the emergence of information economy and the global discourse of the new era of Knowledge Based Society, not only organizational culture debates, but also the information technology topic find their ways to the management concerns and initiatives. Thus, the general level being management and...

In Business English, the technique of chunking and its linguistic expression largely contributes to the business model of communication. Precision questions are undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools for enriching the process of communication and identifying people`s language preferences....