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The Paradox of Points: Theoretical Foundation and Empirical Evidence of Mediu…
In his research, Sören Köcher provides valuable insights on the paradoxical effects of the magnitude of a loyalty program medium—i.e. the sheer number of points, miles, or stamps credited for every purchase and required for reward redemption—on the central consumer decisions in loyalty program memberships. In sum, the results of twelve empirical studies reveal that high magnitude currenci…
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- 978-3-658-09543-7
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- XIX, 163
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- Applied Marketing Science / Angewandte Marketingforschung
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Understanding Auctions
In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items. The prime goal of this book is to set an organized classification of the main auction mechanisms in a way that readers can understand the importance of auction design and the advantages and drawbacks of each model. Given the relevance o…
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- 978-3-319-08813-6
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- 18 illustrations in colour
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Advances in Happiness Research: A Comparative Perspective
This edited volume makes a contribution to the literature on happiness research by compiling studies based on cross-national research and from diverse academic disciplines. The book is distinctive in that it contains both theoretical and empirical analyses, investigating relationship between causes of happiness and economic behavior relating to employment, consumption, and saving. Most notably,…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-4-431-55753-1
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- XX, 344
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- Creative Economy
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- 330.07 ADV a
Experimental Econophysics
Experimental Econophysics describes the method of controlled human experiments, which is developed by physicists to study some problems in economics or finance, namely, stylized facts, fluctuation phenomena, herd behavior, contrarian behavior, hedge behavior, cooperation, business cycles, partial information, risk management, and stock prediction. Experimental econophysics together with empiri…
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- 978-3-662-44234-0
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
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Experimental Economics Volume II: Economic Applications
How do applications affect behavior? Experimental Economics Volume II seeks to answer these questions by examining the auction mechanism, imperfect competition and incentives to understand financial crises, political preferences and elections, and more.
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- 978-1-137-53816-1
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- XVIII, 220
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Evolving Norms Cognitive Perspectives in Economics
This book presents institutional evolution and individual choice as codependent results of behavioral patterns. Drawing on F.A. Hayek's concepts of cognition and cultural evolution, Teraji demonstrates how the relationship between the sensory and social orders can allow economists to track social norms and their effects on the global economy. He redirects attention from the conventional focus o…
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- 220220101007
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- 7 b/w illustrations
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Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions
The book highlights the ethical aspects and issues that are inherent to economics in the context of today’s prominent social institutions. It reviews a range of problems concerning dominant social institutions, namely markets, government agencies, corporate entities, financial networks, and religious systems. Further, in each case, the book takes a detailed look at the economic problems as th…
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- 978-981-10-0899-3
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Strategy and Game Theory
This textbook presents worked-out exercises on game theory with detailed step-by-step explanations. While most textbooks on game theory focus on theoretical results, this book focuses on providing practical examples in which students can learn to systematically apply theoretical solution concepts to different fields of economics and business. The text initially presents games that are required …
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- 978-3-319-32963-5
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- XIV, 341
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Emotion in Group Decision and Negotiation
The volume offers an exploration of methods for analysis of emotion in negotiation, such as cognitive modeling, discourse analysis, all testing, subsequent multidimensional scaling, impression rating, and graph modeling for conflict resolution, reasonable and unreasonable disagreement. It covers activities, such as business negotiation, conflict solving, bargaining, task management meetings,…
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- 978-94-017-9963-8
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- XI, 218
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