Search Results - "Economics and Econometrics"

Research in UK universities: a tale of two subjects - Economics and Econometrics; and Business and Management Studies by Johnston, James, Reeves, Alan

“… The Units of Assessment are Economics and Econometrics; and Business and Management Studies…”
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Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice by Andersson, Ola, Carlson, Jim Ingebretsen, Wengström, Erik

“… We find that subjects are more likely to choose an option when we add options increasing the maximal difference in the original…”
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Impact of medicinal plants cultivation on rural livelihoods: the case of South Khorasan Province in Iran by Dalir, Mahboubeh, Choobchian, Shahla, Abbasi, Enayat, Fauconnier, Marie-Laure, Dogot, Thomas, Värnik, Rando, Azadi, Hossein

“… To achieve this goal, firstly, using relevant literature and secondary sources, the data were collected, and then to determine the validity, a questionnaire was provided to a panel of subject experts…”
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Promoting socially desirable behaviors through persuasion and commitment: Experimental evidence by Bazart, Cécile, Lefebvre, Mathieu, Rosaz, Julie

“…, and communication between subjects. Our results suggest that these non-monetary procedures significantly increase cooperation and reduce the decay of contributions across…”
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Does having insurance change individuals' self-confidence? by Guber, Raphael, Kocher, Martin G., Winter, Joachim

“… In this paper, we provide evidence that this is not necessarily the case. We show that in an insurance context, being insured against losses that may be incurred in a real-effort task changes subjects' self-confidence…”
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Information disclosure under liability: an experiment on public bads by Jacob, Julien, Lambert, Eve-Angéline, Lefebvre, Mathieu, Van Driessche, Sarah

“… Subjects interact in a public bad setting and must choose ex ante how much to contribute in order to reduce the probability of causing a common damage…”
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Do U.S. paintings follow the CAPM? Findings disaggregated by subject, artist, and value of the work by Agnello, Richard J.

“…This paper investigates to what extent paintings by U.S. artists born before WWII can be treated like capital assets, and whether the findings are specific to artist, subject matter, and value of the work…”
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Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea by Kim, Byung-Yeon, Choi, Syngjoo, Lee, Jungmin, Lee, Sokbae, Choi, Kyunghui

“…•We find a sharp disparity in distributional preferences between NK refugees and SK subjects…”
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Bootstrapping realized multivariate volatility measures by Dovonon, Prosper, Gonçalves, Sílvia, Meddahi, Nour

“… Nevertheless, and contrary to the existing results in the bootstrap literature for regression models subject to error heteroskedasticity, the Edgeworth expansion for the pairs bootstrap…”
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Credible communication and cooperation: Experimental evidence from multi-stage Games by Andersson, Ola, Wengström, Erik

“… ► Two treatments are considered: one with only pre-play communication and one where subjects can also communicate intra-play between the stages of the game…”
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The empirical effects of competition on third-degree price discrimination in the presence of arbitrage by Boik, Andre

“…Since Borenstein (1985) and Holmes (1989), a theoretical and empirical literature has emerged that examines the effects of competition on third-degree price…”
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The provision of lighthouses services: a political economy perspective by Carnis, Laurent

“… This contribution sets out to situate the debate in the context of an economic policy for which the lighthouse is an asset subject to political rent seeking…”
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Mixed oligopoly, public firm behavior, and free private entry by Bennett, John, La Manna, Manfredi

“…We analyze a mixed oligopoly with free entry by private firms, assuming that a public firm maximizes an increasing function of output, subject to a break-even constraint…”
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A methodological approach to ratio bias by Passerini, Gabriella, Macchi, Laura, Bagassi, Maria

“…) than when it is expressed as a ratio of large numbers (e.g., 10-in-100). Four experiments show that the phenomenon is increased by the experimental paradigm, which misleads subjects regarding the aim of the task by inducing equal-ratio neglect…”
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Campaign rhetoric and the hide-and-seek game by Bhattacharya, Sourav

“…) or attacking the rival (negative campaign). Candidates vary only by quality. Campaign choices determine the subject of public deliberation…”
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Solitary City: Time, Space and Urban Policy by Oshiro, Jun

“… Households are subject to too much social isolation when a positive correlation exists between agglomeration and productivity…”
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Efficient earmarking under decentralized fiscal commitments by Silva, Emilson Caputo Delfino

“… However, efficient earmarking need not be universal: It should only involve private consumption and fiscal budgets for public goods subject to decentralized fiscal…”
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On second order conditions for equality constrained extremum problems by Mandy, David M.

“…•The only proof that avoids use of quadratic forms subject to side conditions.•Clarifies Samuelson’s “great loss of symmetry”…”
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Evaluating Change in Objective Ambiguous Mortality Probability: Valuing Reduction in Ambiguity Size and Risk Level by Watanabe, Masahide, Fujimi, Toshio

“… We construct the valuation model based on α -maxmin expected utility to evaluate the reduction in ambiguity size and risk level as well as estimate the subjects’ ambiguity attitude…”
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Specialized Careers by Bar-Isaac, Heski, Hörner, Johannes

“…An agent has different abilities in two types of tasks. These tasks are revealed over time through his performance. The agent initially decides whether to…”
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