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In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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In this paper we analyse the market integration process of the relative price distribution, develop a model to analyze … distribution. We present concepts and definitions related to the market integration process, link this to price convergence in … distribution, argue that the Law of One Price (LOP) is not a sufficient condition for market integration, and present a formal test …
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We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of … aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is … also remarkably regular regarding its size distribution (rank-size rule or Zipf’s Law) and regarding its interaction …
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distribution free and its sample counterpart is shown to be consistent. For a wide class of CDFs the exact analytical expression of … the distribution of the sample HM index is derived, assuming the two underlying samples to be drawn from the same … distribution. The robustness of the concomitant test statistic is assessed, and four different methods are discussed for applying …
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Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
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This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … natural research setting, because performance can be observed at the individual level and without the obscuring effects of … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance …
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in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …
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effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …
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performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education …
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