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For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
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with respect to the recruitment of ex-combatants. Sequentially, attitudes regarding the peace process have a negative …
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The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...
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-of-mind processing with cooperative actions. We report data from a functional MRI experiment designed to test this hypothesis. Subjects …
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This paper derives several simple matching algorithms for special cases of a continuous two sided matching model where agents have single peaked preferences and face no costs or restrictions to matching. These algorithms allow matches to be computed as an explicit function of the parameters of...
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Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R^n --and agents prefer matches that are closer to them according to a distance metric on this set (horizontal preferences). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the...
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the new model, the new model acts like a mixture of Expected Utility Theory and Rank Dependent Utility Theory depending on …
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The article presents an experiment that illustrates a behavior that I denote “relative thinking.” Subjects in the … experiment revealed the minimal price difference for which they were willing to spend 20 minutes and go to a cheaper store. Five … between the good’s price and their valuation of their time as it was reflected in their decisions. The experiment suggests …
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Just as the African economy is confronting its sharpest reversal in a generation; Nigeria is currently faced with perhaps the most challenging economic downturn (amidst fuel subsidy removal) in its history. Thus, social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers to vulnerable...
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tradeoff between profit maximization (market norm) and workers’ welfare (social norm). We use priming to manipulate the cues …
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