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Institutions as Determinants of Preference Change– A One Way Relation?

Binder, Martin; Niederle, Uta-Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

In recent economic literature, there has been an increasing interest in modellingpreferences as endogenous. Some arguments go along the lines that institutions shapepreferences. This paper suggests that adopting a more substantive concept ofpreferences furthers our understanding of how they...

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Economists on Darwin’s theory ofsocial evolution and human behaviour

Marciano, Alain - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2005

The purpose of this article is to analyse the way economists interested in social andeconomic evolution cite, mention or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude ofeconomists towards Darwin’s theory of social evolution – an issue he considered ascentral to his theory. We show that...

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Why Multilevel Selection Matters

Field, Alexander J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

In spite of its checkered intellectual history, and in spite of the myriad proposals ofalternative models that claim to account for the broad range of human behavior and todispense with the need for selection above the organism level, a multilevel selectionframework remains the only coherent...

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In Search of Charismatic Leadersor: You get what you ask for

Endrissat, Nada; Müller, Werner R.; Jaeger Fontana, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2006

The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) study is currentlythe most comprehensive research endeavor that set out to answer – amongst others – whether ornot charismatic/value-based leadership is universally seen to contribute to effective leadership.The results...

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2006

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. FollowingAristotle, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with theselfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studiedempirically. We find...

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Prop Ups During Lockups

Martin, Jens - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2008

The end of the lockup period of initial public offerings generally constitutes the first time corporateinsiders sell significant numbers of shares on the market. I test the hypothesis that shareholderspressure analysts to support the share price until the end of the lockup period.[...]

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THE GEOMETRY OF THE COMPARATIVE STATICS

Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2002

...In this paper, we tackle all these difficulties by conducting a full geomatrical analysis of the comparative statics of general models...

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Menschliches Verhalten in elektronischen Märkten

Söllner, Matthias - 2008

Der Einsatz von experimenteller Ökonomie zur Überprüfung von theoretischen Zusammenhängenhat gezeigt, dass viele dieser Zusammenhänge in der Praxis nicht bestätigtwerden konnten. ...

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Behavioral Finance

Glaser, Markus; Nöth, Markus; Weber, Martin - 2003

Behavoiral finance as a subdiscipline of behavorial economics is finance incorporating findings from psychology and sociology into its theories.

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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2004

competitors in order to improve the own relative position. In the present study we investigate whether this sabotage problem is … mitigated in a repeated interaction between the agents and the principal. As sabotage can hardly be observed in real … competition between agents but also by the possibility to punish the principal via sabotage. …

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