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Experimental Evolution and Economics

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
This is a theory paper that advocates experimental evolution as a novel approach to study economic preferences. Economics could benefit because preferences are exogenous, axiomatic, and contentious.
Terence C. Burnham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Pollinator Habitat Conservation under Current Policy Using Economic Experiments

open access: yesLand, 2017
Pollinators provide critical ecosystems services vital to the production of numerous crops in the United States’ agricultural sector. However, the U.S. is witnessing a serious decline in the abundance and diversity of domestic and wild pollinators, which
Chian Jones Ritten   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

The Turn in Economics: Neoclassical Dominance to Mainstream Pluralism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper investigates whether since the 1980s neoclassical economics has been in the process of being supplanted as the dominant research programme in economics by a collection of competing research approaches which share relatively little in common ...
Davis, John B.
core   +2 more sources

Neural network models of learning and categorization in multigame experiments

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2011
Previous research has shown that regret-driven neural networks predict behavior in repeated completely mixed games remarkably well, substantially equating the performance of the most accurate established models of learning.
Davide eMarchiori, Massimo eWarglien
doaj   +1 more source

Overpricing persistence in experimental asset markets with intrinsic uncertainty

open access: yesEconomics: Journal Articles, 2020
To study coordination in complex social systems such as financial markets, the authors introduce a new prediction market set-up that accounts for fundamental uncertainty.
Sornette Didier   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic behavior of children and adolescents – A first survey of experimental economics results

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2019
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth.
Matthias Sutter   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a Unity of the Human Behavioral Sciences

open access: yesPapers, 2006
Despite their distinct objects of study, the human behavioral sciences all include models of individual human behavior. Unity in the behavioral sciences requires that there be a common underlying model of individual human behavior, specialized and ...
Herbert Gintis
doaj   +1 more source

Guilt Aversion and the Financial Behavior of Individuals: The Moderating Role of Ethical Ideologies [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance
In the rapidly advancing economic and technological landscape, the importance of ethical considerations in individual decision-making has gained unprecedented attention.
Mahsa Esmaeili   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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