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Pairwise Imitation and Tournament Graphs

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates strategic dynamics under the behavioral rule of pairwise interact and imitate (PII), which requires minimal information and emphasizes outperforming opponents in pairwise interactions. We characterize PII using weak tournament graphs and, for a broad class of dynamics, establish a one‐shot stability result for ...
Sung‐Ha Hwang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here? [PDF]

open access: yes
Hope plays an important role in all individuals’ lives both today and in the future. While hope and hopelessness are important concepts and the subjects of much theorizing in psychology, theology, philosophy, political science, nursing, as well as in ...
Rowena Pecchenino
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Fiscal Opacity and Lack of Consensus in Expectations for External Sector Variables

open access: yesInternational Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fiscal transparency is essential for the expectations formation process, as governmental fiscal opacity often leads to forecast errors due to insufficient information. This study examines the relationship between fiscal unpredictability, particularly related to the primary budget, and the lack of consensus in expectations for external sector ...
Gabriel Caldas Montes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explicit Methodologies for Normative Evaluation in Public Policy, as Applied to Carbon Budgets

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What could philosophical or justice perspectives contribute to climate (and other applied philosophy) policy discussions? This question is important for philosophers on government policy committees. This article identifies two novel concerns about such contexts (which I call ‘contingent selection’ and ‘committee deference’) and systematizes ...
Kian Mintz‐Woo
wiley   +1 more source

Intrinsic Benchmark Beating

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the role of intrinsic motivations—psychologically based, non‐economic factors—in earnings benchmark beating by focusing on owner‐managed firms that are largely free from external pressures from shareholders, analysts, and the media.
Jeppe Christoffersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive partial policy innovation: coping with ambiguity through diversification [PDF]

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This paper develops a broad theme about policy choice under ambiguity through study of a particular decision criterion. The broad theme is that, where feasible, choice between a status quo policy and an innovation is better framed as selection of a ...
Charles Manski
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