This book is based on the lecture notes prepared for the advanced course on experimental and numerical methods in earthquake engineering held at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission of the European Communities, Ispra Establishment, in October 1991. The topic of the course was chosen...

This book is based on the lecture notes prepared for the advanced course on experimental and numerical methods in earthquake engineering held at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission of the European Communities, Ispra Establishment, in October 1991. The topic of the course was chosen...

While neoclassical economic theory sheds insight into the way that audit rates and penalty rates interact when individuals decide to declare income for taxation, it predicts far lower levels of compliance than observed levels of compliance. This paper analyses experimental responses to explore a...

This paper begins by contrasting the caricatures "homo and femina economicus" with "homo and femina realitus". Against this backdrop, the paper considers three "apparently falsified" empirical predictions of the standard expected utility model of individual decision-making concerning...