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Identity and Commitment: Sen's Conception of the Individual

Davis, John B. - 2004

This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self … advanced in Davis (2003c). The paper also distinguishes personal identity and social identity, and contrasts Sen's framework … with recent standard economics' explanation of social identity in terms of conformity. Sen's concept of commitment is …

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The Breakdown of Morale

Vikander, Nick - 2009

This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together … learn that lay-offs will occur at a fixed future date, which will eventually cause morale to break down. The paper shows … that the breakdown of morale can vary in size and the equilibrium outcomes can be Pareto ranked. A firm's measures to …

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The Origin of Prospect Theory, or Testing the Intuitive Statistician

Heukelom, Floris - 2005

The origin of prospect theory is the desire to test the intuitive statistician in the real world. The development of this theory by the cognitive psychologists Kahneman and Tversky can be traced to the former's work in cognitive psychophysics, in which deviations from average behavior are termed...

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Gigerenzer the Decided: A Tale of Difficult Distinctions

Heukelom, Floris - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the work of Gigerenzer, thereby focusing on his criticisms of the Heuristics and Biases theory of Kahneman and Tversky. It is proposed that Gigerenzer's work can be both thematically and chronologically organized as: historical research on statistics =...

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Who are the Behavioral Economists and what do they say?

Heukelom, Floris - 2007

The most important financial source for behavioral economics is the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). The most prominent behavioral economists among the RSF’s twenty-six member Behavioral Economics Roundtable (BER) are Kahneman, Tversky, Thaler, Camerer, Loewenstein, Rabin, and Laibson. The...

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Counting what counts: Moral considerations and market surplus

Koster, Paul - 2023

Public benefit-cost analysis of market policies often relies on a particular definition of market surplus that adds up consumer and producer surplus and external costs. This paper provides an overview of conceptual strategies to deal with moral considerations and then develops an adjusted market...

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Urban income inequality and social welfare

Koster, Paul - 2023

When income inequality increases when average income levels increase, rises in average income levels might result in inequality costs. This paper develops marginal social welfare measures that account for the possibility that income inequality changes when average income levels change....

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Competition and Well-Being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control

von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2011

Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting controlcan reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows thatintention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differin their propensity for reciprocity...

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Other-regarding Preferences, Group Identity and Political Participation: An Experiment

Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013

We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in-group bias is either high or low. At the individual level,...

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