News tagged with journal of economic theory
Truth revealed in rare disaster theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research that supports a theory that investors need to account for rare disasters when making decisions on the stockmarket has been accepted for publication in the international top journal in finance.
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Oct 13, 2010 |
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Study: Ministers paid to poach other flocks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of the clergy may answer to a higher power, but new research suggests they respond to the invisible hand of the market as well. A study published in the Journal of Labor Economics finds that Method ...
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Online poker study: The more hands you win, the more money you lose
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Cornell study of online poker seems counterintuitive: The more hands players win, the less money they're likely to collect - especially when it comes to novice players.
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Hoover's pro-labor stance helped cause Great Depression, economist says
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, ...
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Aug 28, 2009 |
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Medicare auction will face severe difficulties, research shows
Medicare's new method for buying medical supplies and equipment -- everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks -- is doomed to face severe difficulties, according to a new ...
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Predicting burglary patterns through math modeling of crime
Pattern formation in physical, biological, and sociological systems has been studied for many years. Despite the fact that these subject areas are completely diverse, the mathematics that describes underlying patterns in ...
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Imposing trade restrictions on parallel imports can motivate a firm to export, study finds
(Phys.org) -- Imposing trade restrictions on parallel imports has the surprising effect of motivating a firm to export, according to a new study using game theory economic analysis.
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Apr 11, 2012 |
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Economists demonstrate one size does not fit all for microfinance programs
Large-scale microfinance programs are widely used as a tool to fight poverty in developing countries, but a recent study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty suggests that they can have varying results for ...
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Mar 21, 2012 |
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'Lucky' numbers make for unlucky customers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese consumers pay too much for goods and services because of superstitions surrounding particular numbers, Binghamton University economist Zili Yang says.
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Global warming skepticism climbs during tough economic times
The American public's growing skepticism in recent years about the existence of man-made global warming is rooted in apprehension about the troubled economy, a University of Connecticut study suggests.
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Market exchange rules responsible for wealth concentration
Two Brazilian physicists have shown that wealth concentration invariably stems from a particular type of market exchange rules – where agents cannot receive more income than their own capital. The authors concluded that ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Wildlife and cows can be partners, not enemies, in search for food
(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton University researchers are leading an effort to put to pasture the long-held convention of cattle ranching that wild animals compete with cows for food.
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Stock market network reveals investor clustering
(PhysOrg.com) -- The stock price of a company continuously changes, going up or down depending on the collective activity of a large number of investors. Although this process seems fairly straightforward, ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Mathematics confirm the chaos of the Spanish labor market
Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour market in the ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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