A consistent number of empirical works have shown the existence of a significant positive
relationship between growth and innovation, especially stressing the role of innovation for …

An agent-based artificial market is developed to investigate the impact of confirmatory bias
on volatility and kurtosis in one-period returns. Sentiment investors (similar to chartists) trade …

Prior studies have found that subjects prefer an improving sequence of income over a
constant sequence, even if the constant sequence offers a larger present-discounted value …

The qualitative and quantitative increase in market offerings has led to an increased
significance of purchasers in the market and has changed their expectations over a short …

It is well-known that subjects can exhibit a preference for increasing payments. Smith
(2009a)[Smith, J.(2009a). Imperfect Memory and the Preference for Increasing Payments …

This article establishes an economic framework to identify the conditions under which an
optimizing agent may seek (or not seek) to engage in costly dissonance reduction. We set …

A avaliação de desempenho, sob uma abordagem construtivista, se apresenta como um
processo para construir conhecimento no decisor a respeito do contexto específico que se …

This paper examines the impact of confirmatory bias as it modifies the way in which
information is disseminated within a small world network. A small world network is used as it …

A Teoria da Dissonância Cognitiva, embora tenha seu contexto principal na psicologia
social, tem se tornado uma teoria frequentemente citada na pesquisa de gestão e …

This paper presents a very simple model with present biased agents where optimal
compensation schedules may be back-loaded, which is a characteristics of wage contracts …