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The Impact of Services on Economic Complexity: Service Sophistication as Route for Economic Growth [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE 11(8) 2016, 2016
Economic complexity reflects the amount of knowledge that is embedded in the productive structure of an economy. By combining tools from network science and econometrics, a robust and stable relationship between a country's productive structure and its economic growth has been established.
arxiv   +1 more source

Sharing as risk pooling in a social dilemma experiment

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2015
In rural economies with missing or incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk is frequently pooled through informal networks. Idiosyncratic shocks, however, are not limited to private goods but can also restrict an individual from partaking in or benefiting ...
Todd L. Cherry   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A teoria da perspectiva e as mudanças de preferência no mainstream: um prospecto Lakatoseano

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2010
The theory of the perspective and the changes of preference in the mainstream: a Lakatosean prospect. For many decades over the 20th Century, the mainstream of economics adopted a normative and axiomatic theory of individual behavior in which maximizing ...
Bruno Berger, Huáscar Fialho Pessali
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Group Identity on Pro-environmental Behavioral Norms in China: Evidence From an Experiment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study experimentally evaluates the effects of group identity primed by property rights on pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) and social norms in an urban Chinese environment.
Qinjuan Wan   +3 more
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Ekonomia behawioralna jako nowy nurt ekonomii – zarys problematyki

open access: yesStudia i Materiały, 2015
Behavioural economics is a fast developing field in modern economics and is associated with empirical and experimental studies. A distinct characteristic of behavioural economics is its multidisciplinary nature.
Tomasz Zalega
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Risk Preferences in Time Lotteries [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
An important but understudied question in economics is how people choose when facing uncertainty in the timing of events. Here we study preferences over time lotteries, in which the payment amount is certain but the payment time is uncertain. Expected discounted utility theory (EDUT) predicts decision makers to be risk-seeking over time lotteries.
arxiv  

Dual-Process Reasoning in Charitable Giving: Learning from Non-Results

open access: yesGames, 2017
To identify dual-process reasoning in giving, we exposed experimental participants making a charitable donation to vivid images of the charity’s beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect.
Zachary Grossman, Joël J. Van der Weele
doaj   +1 more source

Task allocation planning based on HTN for national economic mobilization [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
In order to cope with the task allocation in national economic mobilization, a task allocation planning method based on Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) for national economic mobilization is proposed. An HTN planning algorithm is designed to solve and optimize task allocation, and a method is explored to deal with the resource shortage.
arxiv  

Resistant grape varieties and market acceptance: an evaluation based on experimental economics

open access: yesOENO One, 2018
We analyze consumers’ evaluations of white wines from resistant varieties, produced in the Languedoc winegrowing region of France (2016 vintage). We use the results from a laboratory experiment performed in Paris in June 2017, where a panel of more than ...
Alejandro Fuentes Espinoza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk aversion, path dependency and financial economic decision-making in low-income communities: Experimental evidence from South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2020
Orientation: Poverty is deeply entrenched in South Africa, and various initiatives to reduce it have not been successful. Behavioural economics may help explain this by testing whether individuals exhibit path dependence when making decisions under ...
Syden Mishi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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