We revisit the economic models of social learning by assuming that individuals update theirbeliefs in a non-Bayesian way. Individuals either overweigh or underweigh (in Bayesian terms)their private information relative to the public information revealed by the decisions of othersand each...

Behavioral (e.g. consumption) patterns of boundedly rational agents can lead these agents intolearning dynamics that appear to be “wasteful” in terms of well-being or welfare. Within settingsdisplaying preference endogeneity, it is however still unclear how to conceptualize well-being.This...

This paper lays out an evolutionary theory for the cognitive foundations and cultural emergenceof the extravagant displays (e.g., ritual mutilation, animal sacrifice, and martyrdom) that have sooften tantalized social scientists, as well as more mundane actions that influence cultural...

Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a socioeconomictransformation. Such a view requires a comprehensive understanding of how agents learn and changetheir behaviour. However, these aspects have only been inadequately addressed in...

The present thesis consists of seven papers specifying and analysing models of direct-interactions-driven collective economic phenomena. Within theories and models of coordination in large decentralized market economies (and analogously also within theories and models of coordination in natural...

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Der Dreiklang International - Europäisch - Regional steht für aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Ebenen der Veränderung, die von der Wissenschaft aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aufgegriffen werden. Zu nennen sind die Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, der europäische...

Vorwort des Rektors ; Johannes Burkhardt: Die Entdeckung des Handels. Die kommerzielle Welt in der Wissensordnung der Fr?hen Neuzeit ; Helmut Koopmann: Geld und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert ; Henning Krau?: Der ?konomische Mensch. Politische Funktionen und literarische Bilder

Im letzten Jahrzehnt haben sich die Anstrengungen verstärkt, in der Region Hamburg einen tragfähigen Standort für moderne Biotechnologien zu etablieren. Die wachsende Intensität der Hamburger Biotechnologieförderung kann als Reflex auf den drastischen Einbruch neu gegründeter...