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The Jamestown/Xiaogang Survival Game: A Class Experiment
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One of the most important insights for any economics class is the power of private incentives and competition to work hard when the fruits of one's effort are not diluted by incomplete property rights. The paper reports results of a classroom experiment that implements a transition from a “common field” with shared harvests to a division into ...
Lee Coppock +3 more
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In the field:Coase an exemplar in the tradition of Smith, Marshall and Ostrom [PDF]
, 2014 This paper argues that Coase provides the primary 20th century exemplar of the grounding of analytical developments in economics in direct fieldwork observation.
Reid, Gavin C.
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The emergence of cooperation in natural selection has been successfully studied using game theory and, despite the underlying selfish nature of the evolutionary process, a spectrum of plausible mechanisms have been proposed to determine the conditions under which cooperative behaviour is likely to occur.
Phil Mercy, Martin Neil
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Does a Financial Crisis Affect Operating Risk? Evidence from Polish Listed Companies
Economics and Business Review, 2018 In turbulent times of crisis the variability of both EBIT and operating revenue increase in comparison to a relatively stable post crisis period. The main aim of this paper is to investigate this relationship across these two periods.
Kalinowski Sławomir, Puziak Marcin
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Heterodox microeconomics and the foundation of heterodox macroeconomics [PDF]
The resolution of the controversy over the microfoundations of macroeconomics is important to heterodox economics. In this essay, I argue that the controversy is due to misspecification.
Lee, Frederic
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, 2018 This students’ guidebook is worked out in accordance with the standards of higher education within the Bologna Process and meets the official requirement to academic program in course Microeconomics.
Архієреєв, Сергій Ігоревич +2 more
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Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly common in government infrastructure programs around the world. This study collates and categorises the types of rationales that scholars have identified as the reasons for governments to use PPPs.
Sebastian Zwalf
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A microeconomic approach to estimating demand: the asymptotically ideal model [PDF]
Microeconomics
Piyu Yue
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
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