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CONSUMER’S BEHAVIOUR – AN APPROACH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2015
The consumer and his behaviour have concerned all economists, no matter if they are theoreticians or practitioners. Naturally, research in the domain has revealed new aspects, new theories and has led to the creation of schools of thought in time ...
Viorel CORNESCU, Roxana ADAM
doaj  

Efficient Contracts for Digital Content [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyses efficient contracts for digital content, focusing on the music industry. It contributes to the quest for an efficient intellectual property rights environment for information goods.
Tobias Regner
core  

Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source

Can social norms promote sustainable food consumption? A systematic review

open access: yesSocial Influence
As societies shift toward plant-based diets to address sustainability challenges, social norms have emerged as influential in promoting sustainable food choices. However, there is limited synthesis on the effectiveness of related interventions.
Daniele Pollicino   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioural economic methods

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter describes how psychological concepts and measurements have been applied in behavioural economics and integrated into economic models. It starts introducing anomalies, indicating violation of standard economic assumptions, such as unstable preferences, intransitive preferences and preference reversals.
openaire   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are based on restrictive assumptions, which confine the nature
Dohmen, Thomas
core  

Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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