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The political economy of international environmental agreements : a survey
Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011
groups ; free-rider incentives ; determinants of international environmental cooperation ; public goods experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271149
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Productive government expenditure and economic growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2008
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747332
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
experiments ; social preferences ; second best ; motivational crowding ; explicit incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872219
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a reference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
experiments ; social preferences ; second best ; motivational crowding ; explicit incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879798
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945996
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Dictator games : a meta study
Engel, Christoph - 2010
Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes … the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947376
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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use … experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … explaining heterogeneity in important life outcomes and behavior. -- risk preference ; time preference ; social preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535776
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Are groups more rational than individuals? : a review of interactive decision making in groups
Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin - 2012
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489008
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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use … experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … explaining heterogeneity in important life outcomes and behavior. -- risk preference ; time preference ; social preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522305
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Social networks
Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925546