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Keynes as the first behavioral economist : the case of the attribute-substitution heuristic
Koutsobinas, Thodoris T. - In: Journal of post-Keynesian economics : JPKE 37 (2014/2015) 2, pp. 337-355
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Information aggregation in Poisson elections
Ekmekci, Mehmet; Lauermann, Stephan - In: Theoretical Economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...
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Information aggregation in Poisson elections
Ekmekci, Mehmet; Lauermann, Stephan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806603
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population … strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban migrants. The importance of these expectations for life satisfaction is … particularly pronounced in the urban areas, though also highly significant for the rural area. If expectations were to reverse from …
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y. C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009505577
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Under risk, over time, regarding other people : language and rationality within three dimensions
Jullien, Dorian - 2018
This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic behaviors within three dimensions: under risk, over time and regarding other people. A new perspective on two underlying methodological issues, i.e., interdisciplinarity and...
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Thorstein Veblen's Institutional Economics and Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's Behavioral Economics : an analysis of convergent points
Taioka, Tainari; Almeida, Felipe; Fernández, Ramón García - In: Brazilian journal of political economy 40 (2020) 4, pp. 746-765
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The expansion of economics : toward a more inclusive social science
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana (ed.); Clague, Christopher (ed.) - 2002
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F. A. Hayek on the political economy of endogenous preferences : an historical overview and contemporary assessment
Dold, Malte; Lewis, Paul - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 196 (2022), pp. 104-119
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Vicious and Virtuous Circles - The Political Economy of Unemployment in Interwar UK and USA
Matthews, Kent; Minford, Patrick; Naraidoo, Ruthira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper develops a political economy model of multiple unemployment equilibria to provide a theory of an endogenous natural rate of unemployment. This model is applied to the UK and the US interwar period which is remembered as the decade of mass unemployment. The theory here sees the natural...
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