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Title:Risk Attitudes and Measures of Value for Risky Lotteries Author(s):LEWANDOWSKI, MichalDate:2010Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2010 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The topic of this thesis is decision-making under risk. I focus my analysis on expected utility theory by von Neumann and Morgenstern. I am especially interested in modeling risk attitudes represented by Bernoulli utility ...

Title:Envy can promote more equal division in alternating-offer bargaining Author(s):KOHLER, StefanDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECOAbstract:Bargainers in an open-ended alternating-offer bargaining situation may perceive envy, a utility loss caused by receiving the smaller share that is modeled in some social preferences in addition to self-interest. I extend ...

Title:Community-driven development and social capital : evidence from Morocco Author(s):CHI NGUYEN, Tu; RIEGER, MatthiasDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/02Abstract:Community-driven development programs rest on the principle of development aid through active community participation. Their demand-driven and bottom-up nature of decision making is expected to promote pro-social behaviors. ...

Title:Group formation, in-group bias and the cost of cheating Author(s):MICHAELI, MotiDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2015/04Abstract:Group formation and in-group bias -- preferential treatment for insiders -- are widely observed social phenomena. This paper demonstrates how they arise naturally when people incur a psychological cost as the result of ...

Title:Acquisition of Information and Share Prices: An Empirical Investigation of Cognitive Dissonance Author(s):ARGENTESI, Elena; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut EUI affiliated

; MOTTA, MassimoDate:2010Citation: German Economic Review, 2010, 11, 3, 381-396 Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper deals with the determinants of agents' acquisition of information. Our econometric evidence shows that the general index of Italian share-prices and the series of Italy's financial newspaper sales are cointegrated, ...

Title:Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian north-south divide Author(s):BIGONI, Maria; BORTOLOTTI, Stefania; CASARI, Marco EUI affiliated

; GAMBETTA, Diego EUI affiliated

; PANCOTTO, FrancescaDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2013/04Abstract:Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that ...

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