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Marie-José Avenier (CERAG, Grenoble) réagit sur les questions épistémologiques soulevées dans le précédent numéro en défendant le paradigme constructiviste. Pour elle, il s'agit bien d'un paradigme même si elle distingue différents types de constructivisme, fondé sur des hypothèses...
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Les recherches qualitatives se veulent souvent exploratoires : elles entendent inventer des concepts, proposer de nouvelles notions et théories. Dans le même temps, pour interpréter les données, elles manient des concepts existants. Mais bien souvent, les notions utilisées ou proposées...
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Dans un livre récent, How professors think, Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) analyse la manière dont des chercheurs de différentes disciplines, réunis dans des comités, construisent un jugement collectif en sélectionnant des projets de recherche à financer. L'intérêt de l'ouvrage...
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We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of bargaining power on the design and the selection of contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent of unknown type. In our second treatment, a principal can select...
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This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...
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Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect in a labor market context where the length of the employment relationship is endogenous. In our three-stage gift-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee...
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The workshop of the Association for Public Economic Theory on behavioral and experimental public economics was held at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Universite de Lyon, from June 24 to June 26, 2008. Thirty papers were presented in addition to keynotes by Charlie Plott and John List. The...
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D'un article qui se propose de traiter de la manière de faire une revue de littérature, on s'attend à ce qu'il fournisse surtout des conseils pratiques, ce que les anglo-saxons appellent des tips, à propos des deux volets complémentaires et nécessaires : la pêche aux références...
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Experimental literature has shown that social preferences influence how individuals bargain and make sharing decisions. It usually considers situations in which individuals negotiate on a single issue. This paper explores a different environment and reports on an experiment based on a...
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A demand for behavioral norms arises when members of a group have individual incentives to take actions that reduce the group's overall welfare (James S. Coleman, 1990). Norms require enforcement with a system of sanctions that penalize deviations from acceptable behavior (George C. Homans,...
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