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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract When quality attributes of a product are not directly observable, third‐party certification (TPC) enables buyers to distinguish between quality levels and reward sellers accordingly. We study the adoption of TPC by traders in smallholder‐based agricultural value chains in low‐income countries, where traders aggregate products from many small ...
Gashaw T. Abate +4 more
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A general theory of time discounting: The reference-time theory of intertemporal choice [PDF]
We develop a general theory of intertemporal choice: the reference-time theory, RT. RT is a synthesis of ideas from the generalized hyperbolic model (Loewenstein and Prelec 1992), the quasi-hyperbolic model (Phelps and Pollak 1968, Laibson 1997) and ...
Ali al-Nowaihi, Sanjit Dhami
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Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Negotiating factional conflict is crucial to successful coordination: Political parties, rebel alliances, and authoritarian elites must all overcome internal disagreements to survive and achieve collective aims. Actors in these situations sometimes employ hardball tactics to block outcomes they dislike, but at the risk of causing coordination ...
Elaine Yao
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Allergy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare and potentially life‐threatening systemic, inflammatory disease with multi‐organ manifestations, variable presentation and complex pathology. Multiple interconnected immunological pathways are implicated in EGPA pathology, including a type‐2 immune response driving predominantly ...
Harold Wilson‐Morkeh +7 more
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Don't stop me now: Psychological effects of interrupting a moving pedestrian crowd and a video game. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Üsten E, Sieben A.
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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Complete Monotonicity of the Representative Consumer's Discount Factor [PDF]
A univariate real-valued function is said to be completely monotone if it takes positive values and alternate the signs of its higher order derivatives, starting from everywhere negative first derivatives.
Hara, Chiaki
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Impatience for Weakly Paretian Orders: Existence and Genericity [PDF]
We study order theoretic and topological implications for impatience of weakly Paretian, representable orders on infinite utility streams. As a departure from the traditional literature, we do not make any continuity assumptions in proving the existence ...
Banerjee, Kuntal, Dubey, Ram
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Alimentary Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.In this population‐based study in Alberta, Canada, evidence from RCTs led to a rapid reversal in pentoxifylline use, prior to formal guideline updates. Real‐world data support a modest short‐term benefit of CS and illustrate the potential of target trial emulation to assess treatment effectiveness in specific groups of patients. ABSTRACT Background and
Abdel‐Aziz Shaheen +3 more
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Weakly Nonseparable Preference and the Current Account: Yes, There is a Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect. [PDF]
We examine the current account effect of a terms-of-trade deterioration for a small country model, incorporating weakly nonseparable preference a la Shi (1994) under endogenous time preference.INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY ; CURRENT ...
Ikeda, S.
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