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Repeated cheap-talk games of common interest between a decision-maker and an expert of unknown statistical bias

Valsecchi, Irene - 2010

Two agents are engaged in a joint activity that yields a common perperiod payoff at two rounds of play. The expert announces the probability that the current state of the world is low, instead of high, at each stage. Having received the report of the expert, the decision-maker takes action at...

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The future of the ecological farm: Ten opinions and evaluations. Results of applying Delphi method

Florian, Violeta; Chiţea, Mihai Alexandr; Rusu, Marioara; … - 2021

If we can decipher the content of opinions and evaluations of those involved in ecological agriculture then we could know the subjective fundamentals/resorts of the modernization and ecological development's process at the level of the rural communities. The study mainly aims at identifying the...

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Fifty shades of hatred and discontent: Varieties of anti-finance discourses on the European Twitter (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK)

Massoc, Elsa Clara - 2022

Are we in a new "Polanyian moment"? If we are, it is essential to examine how "spontaneous" and punctual expressions of discontent at the individual level may give rise to collective discourses driving social and political change. It is also important to examine whether and how the framing of...

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Fifty shades of hatred and discontent: Varieties of anti-finance discourses on the European Twitter (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK)

Massoc, Elsa Clara - 2022

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Exploring the opinions of the YouTube visitors towards advertisements and its influence on purchase intention among viewers

Sebastian, Ann Tresa; Lal, Bhagya; Anupama, J.; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-24

in online customers in recent years. Nonetheless, there are not many in-depth studies analyzing the opinion of Indian … explored opinion about advertisements and its role in purchasing intentions among young YouTube visitors, using qualitative …

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Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals

Askitas, Nikos - 2017

An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept … of opinion copulas, argue that it is well supported by findings in Social Psychology and use it to show that the …

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Coordination of Pension Provision in a Divided Europe: The Role of Citizens' Preferences

van Groezen, Bas; Kiiver, H.; Unger, Brigitte - 2006

This paper explores the underlying factors which explain the diversity in public opinion of EU citizens on the …

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Experts and Non-experts

Valsecchi, Irene - 2007

The paper is concerned with the interaction between two agents: an expert, announcing his probability that a particular state of the world will occur, and a non-expert decision-maker, who takes action according to his posterior beliefs. The decision-maker considers the expert an experiment of...

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The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...

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Who Cares? How Students View Faculty and Other Adults in US Higher Education

Goethals, George R.; Hurshman, Laurie C.; Sischy, Adam C.; … - 2003

Using Mellon Foundation's College and Beyond survey of alumni from 34 colleges and universities spanning 40 years, Clotfelter found that those who reported that someone "... besides students [took] a special interest in you or your work" also reported greater general satisfaction with their...

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