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Labour market effects of unemployment accounts: insights from behavioural economics [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reconsiders the behavioural effects of replacing the existing unemployment insurance system with unemployment accounts (UAs). Under this alternative system, workers are required to save a fraction of their wage in special accounts whereas the ...
Janneke Plantenga, Thomas van Huizen
core  

The Financial Status and Local Credit Market Conditions of U.S. Farms Engaged in Multiple Borrowing

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural producers often borrow from multiple lenders, raising concerns about credit risk and monitoring. We construct detailed farm‐level measures of how debt is distributed across lenders and examine how farm financial status and the physical presence of local lenders are linked to this practice.
Sylvanus Gaku   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jeremy Bentham, ‘The Psychology of Economic Man’, and Behavioural Economics

open access: yesŒconomia, 2016
Section 1 briefly reviews first the received interpretation of Bentham, which sees him as having had little to do with the development of economics (excepting some passing mentions which recognize his deployment of the concept of utility or his reduction
Michael Quinn
doaj   +1 more source

Human preferences and risky choices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
There are different views on what preferences for risks are and whether they are indicators of stable, underlying generic cognitive systems. Preferences could be conceived as an attitude towards a set of properties of context, memory and affect - a ...
Juliusson, Asgeir   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Relationship Between Knowledge and Compliance With Safety Measures: Evidence From COVID‐19

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Compliance with health safety protocols is important for protecting public health, particularly in agricultural sectors where disease outbreaks can disrupt production and market access. Despite its economic significance, we know little about what drives protocol compliance.
Nilufer Cetik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize Awarded to Richard Thaler

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2017
The 2017 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Richard H. Thaler “for his contributions to behavioural economics”. Till Grüne-Yanoff reflects on Thaler’s work.
Till Grüne-Yanoff
doaj   +1 more source

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