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The Impact of a Large-Scale Poverty-Targeted Cash Transfer Program on Intertemporal Choice
Economic development and cultural change, 2020 We use a social experiment to test whether the government of Zambia’s cash transfer program affects intertemporal choice. A cash transfer program may also alter expectations about future quality of life and make one happier, two conditions that can ...
S. Handa, David Seidenfeld, G. Tembo
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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The attraction effect modulates reward prediction errors and intertemporal choices [PDF]
, 2017 Classical economic theory contends that the utility of a choice option should be independent of other options. This view is challenged by the attraction effect, in which the relative preference between two options is altered by the addition of a third ...
Gluth, Sebastian +2 more
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Many contemporary concerns (e.g., addiction, failure to save) can be viewed as intertemporal choice problems in which the consequences of choices are realized at different times.
Evan C Carter +3 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Intertemporal choice involves the evaluation of future rewards and reflects behavioral impulsivity. After choosing a delayed reward in an intertemporal choice, a behavioral agent waits for, receives, and then consumes the reward.
Ayaka Misonou, Koji Jimura
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How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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Dopaminergic function and intertemporal choice [PDF]
Translational Psychiatry, 2015 The discounting of delayed rewards, also known as temporal or delay discounting, is intrinsic to everyday decisions and can be impaired in pathological states such as addiction disorders. Preclinical and human studies suggest a role for dopaminergic function in temporal discounting but this relationship has not yet been verified using molecular imaging
Joutsa, J +5 more
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
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Forecasting House Prices: The Role of Market Interconnectedness
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the existing research uncovers interconnections between various housing markets, it largely ignores the question of whether such linkages can improve house price predictions. To address this issue, we proceed in two steps. First, we forecast disaggregated house price growth rates from Australia and China to determine whether ...
Zac Chen +3 more
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