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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Economics -- Psychological aspects."”.
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Elasticity of Money as a Reinforcer: Assessing Multiple Compositions of Unit Price
Behavioral economics is the integration of concepts from micro-economics into behavior analysis. Most of the research in behavioral economics has been done with non-human subjects and with drugs as reinforcers. This study represents an extension of previous research to assess money as a reinforcer …
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Temporal Discounting of Losses
This dissertation presents a series of five papers to better understand how to measure discounting, how and why discounting of losses differs from discounting of gains, and how to apply research on discounting to public policy. Paper 1 compares two common methods of measuring discounting - …
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A Comparison of Discounting Parameters Obtained Through Two Different Adjusting Procedures: Bisection and Up-Down.
The study compared delay discounting in adult humans using two different methods of adjustments. Both methods used hypothetical choices of monetary outcomes. One involved adjustments using a fixed sequence of ascending or descending amounts, the other used a bisection algorithm in which the changes …
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A Behavioral Economic Analysis of the Effects of Unit Price Sequence on Demand for Money in Humans.
Three groups of participants were exposed to different unit price sequences. Unit prices for all groups ranged from unit price 1 to 21. Analyses of demand curves, response rates, session duration, and elasticity coefficients suggest that the sequence of exposure to unit prices can affect the …
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An analysis of economic behaviour of policy makers over the electoral business cycle in Malta
Despite the fact that theoretical research on opportunistic political cycles is very intuitive and well developed, empirical literature has found relatively weak evidence of political business cycles. This dissertation tries to reformulate the existing theory on two levels. On the empirical level, …