A key result in macroeconomics is the "time inconsistency of short-run optimal plans." It is argued that inflationary bias results if central bankers do not precommit to a monetary policy rule. The macro literature, however, ...

Around the world, students from a disadvantaged background are underrepresented in prestigious and lucrative fields of study, such as medicine and STEM. We know little about whether universities can affect individuals' ...

In a recent paper Samir Okasha has suggested an application of Arrow's impossibility theorem to theory choice. When epistemic virtues are interpreted as "voters" in charge of ranking competing theories, and there are more ...

We consider a decision maker that holds multiple preferences simultaneously, each with different strengths described by a probability distribution. Faced with a subset of available alternatives, the preferences held by ...

What are the factors that contribute to non-compliance with a supply chain partner’s sustainability efforts? Based on institutional theory and social cognitive theory, a discrete-choice experiment was conducted with 128 ...

The traditional formulation of logit models applied to transport demand assumes a compensatory (indirect) utility function in which the consumers’ strategy assumes a tradeoff between attributes. Several authors have ...

Even though densification and social mixing are declared objectives of many nowadays urban planning paradigms, their simultaneous implementation is usually questioned by different actors and is not frequent in practice. ...