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A process approach to the utility for gambling
Menestrel, Marc Le - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
This paper argues that any specific utility or disutility for gambling must be excluded from expected utility because such a theory is consequential while a pleasure or displeasure for gambling is a matter of process, not of consequences. A (dis)utility for gambling is modeled as a process...
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Outcome, Process & Power in Direct Democracy
Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct...
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Is there an omission effect in prosocial behavior beyond the default effect?
Gärtner, Manja; Sandberg, Anna - Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm - 2014
We test whether there is an omission effect in prosocial choices beyond the default effect. To isolate the omission …
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A Little More Liberty: What the _JEL_ Omits in Its Account of What the Economic Report of the President Omits
Klein, Daniel B.; Clark, Michael J. - In: Econ Journal Watch 3 (2006) 3, pp. 466-483
The classical liberal character of economics emerged in the eighteenth century, notably with Adam Smith’s view that politics is prone to an under-appreciation the relative virtues of natural liberty. Smith centered political economy on the presumption of liberty. The Journal of Economic...
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Examining Historical (Mis)Representations of Christopher Columbus within Children’s Literature
Bickford III, J. H. - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 8 (2013) 2, pp. 1-24
Effective teaching, while supplemented by best practice methods and assessments, is rooted in accurate, age-appropriate, and engaging content. As a foundation for history content, elementary educators rely strongly on textbooks and children’s literature, both fiction and non-fiction. While...
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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … action-oriented than others. We theorize that this is driven by their lower levels of loss aversion and higher levels of … on curiosity and lower on loss aversion; (ii) the di fference in action-orientedness between entrepreneurs and others …
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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … action-oriented than others. We theorize that this is driven by their lower levels of loss aversion and higher levels of … on curiosity and lower on loss aversion; (ii) the difference in action-orientedness between entrepreneurs and others …
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The role of refinancing in the interest rate pass-through to fixed-rate mortgage contracts
Hensch, Jonas Ladegaard - 2021
In this paper, I study how mortgage refinancing influences the interest rate pass-through to household budgets via fixed-rate mortgage contracts in Denmark. I develop a model based on a state-dependent process of household actions that endogenously determines household refinancing decisions as a...
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Embarrassing exposures in online social networks : an integrated perspective of privacy invasion and relationship bonding
Choi, Ben C. F.; Jiang, Zhenhui; Xiao, Bo; Kim, Sung S. - In: Information systems research : ISR 26 (2015) 4, pp. 675-694
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The long-run effects of corporate tax reforms
Baley, Isaac; Blanco, Andres - 2022
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