The Journal of Socio-Economics

1991 - 2008

Edited by M. Altman

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This journal is a continuation of Journal of Behavioral Economics.
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Volume 37, issue 1, 2008

Groups, cooperation and conflict in games pp. 1-17

Jonathan H.W. Tan and Daniel John Zizzo

Competition versus cooperation: Some experimental evidence pp. 18-30

Claudia Canegallo, Guido Ortona, Stefania Ottone, Ferruccio Ponzano and Francesco Scacciati

Fairness perceptions and observed consumer behavior: Results of a partial observability model pp. 31-44

Irene Daskalopoulou

Ethical preferences, risk aversion, and taxpayer behavior pp. 45-63

Joseph G. Eisenhauer

The leisure experience pp. 64-78

Victoria M. Ateca-Amestoy, Serrano-del-Rosal, Rafael and Vera-Toscano, Esperanza

The Seat is right: Bidder heterogeneity in The Price Is Right pp. 79-89

Ronald J. Baker and Jeremy T. Schwartz

An economic analysis of apathetic behavior: Theory and experiment pp. 90-107

Aiko Shibata, Toru Mori, Makoto Okamura and Noriko Soyama

Collective opinion formation of individuals socially embedded in a power structure pp. 108-137

Jules Gazon

Estimation of evolutionary models as a tool for research in industrial organization pp. 138-148

Tobias F. Rotheli

The effect of external incentives on profits and firm-provided incentives strategy pp. 149-156

Ofer H. Azar

Culture, effort variability, and hierarchy pp. 157-166

Shinji Teraji

Does the stigma of slavery explain the maltreatment of blacks by whites: The case of lynchings pp. 167-193

Gregory Price, William A. Darity and Alvin E. Headen

An ecological perspective on interest groups and economic stagnation pp. 194-212

Gregory G. Brunk and Kennith G. Hunter

Happiness and health: Well-being among the self-employed pp. 213-236

Pernilla Andersson

The effect of public spending on suicide: Evidence from U.S. state data pp. 237-261

Camelia Minoiu and Antonio Rodriguez Andres

Should we invest in suicide prevention programs pp. 262-275

Nazmi Sari, Sahily de Castro, Frederick L. Newman and Gerry Mills

Meta-regression analysis as the socio-economics of economics research pp. 276-292

T. D. Stanley, Chris Doucouliagos and Stephen B. Jarrell

Multifunctionality and a new focus on externalities pp. 293-307

Stefan Mann and Henry Wustemann

The Tragedy of the Commune: Learning from worst-case scenarios pp. 308-327

Karsten Mause

Peer group effects in education production: Is it about congestion pp. 328-342

Hans Bonesronning

Relative age, identity and schooling: An extension of the Akerlof/Kranton model which solves a puzzle pp. 343-352

Jeremiah Allen

Is concern for relative consumption a function of relative consumption pp. 353-364

Fredrik W. Andersson

Gender dimension in the conservation and sustainable use of agro-biodiversity in West Asia pp. 365-383

Abdelali-Martini, Malika, Ahmed Amri, Mohammed Ajlouni, Raghed Assi, Younes Sbieh and Ali Khnifes

Time, speeding behavior, and optimal penalties pp. 384-399

Mark D. White

How realistic is the supply/demand equilibrium story: A simple demonstration of false trading and its implications for market equilibrium pp. 400-415

Neil H. Buchanan

Institutions and economic change: A critical survey of the new institutional approaches and empirical evidence pp. 416-443

Francesca Gagliardi

S. Bowles, Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (2004) ISBN 978-0-691-09163-1 608 pp., Price: US$ 75 http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7610.html pp. 444-447

Nathan Berg

D. Vogel, The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility, Brookings Institute Press, Washington, DC (2005) ISBN 0-8157-9076-7 222 pp., Hardback, Price: US$ 28.95 pp. 448-450

Danyelle Guyatt

C. Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists, Basic Books, New York, NY (2005) 321 pp pp. 451-453

Christian E. Weller

Lawson Tony, Reorienting Economics, Routledge, London (2003) ISBN 0-415-25336-5 Pages xxvi, 383 pp. 454-456

Stephen T. Ziliak

Volume 36, issue 6, 2007

Asymmetry in information versus asymmetry in power: Implicit assumptions of agency theory? pp. 825-840

Nicole J. Saam

A psychological, attitudinal and professional profile of Irish economists pp. 841-855

Brian M. Lucey and Liam Delaney

The unconscious in economic decision-making: Convergent voices pp. 856-864

Harold Wolozin and Benjamin Wolozin

Experimenters' choices of trust experiments and their consequence for meta-studies pp. 865-874

Friedel Bolle and Jessica Kaehler

Firm-level training in local economic systems: Complementarities in production and firm innovation strategies pp. 875-894

Giovanni Guidetti and Massimiliano Mazzanti

The effect of job satisfaction on labor turnover by gender: An analysis for Switzerland pp. 895-913

Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Sousa-Poza, Andres A.

The role of non-profit organisations in migration policies: Spain and Italy compared pp. 914-931

Maria Carella, Antonia Rosa Gurrieri and Marilene Lorizio

Social capital and innovation dynamics in district-based local systems pp. 932-948

Giulio Cainelli, Susanna Mancinelli and Massimiliano Mazzanti

Cohesiveness and goals in agency networks: Explaining conflict and cooperation pp. 949-964

Ananda Mukherji, Peter Wright and Jyotsna Mukherji

Market overreach: The student as customer pp. 965-977

David George

W.K. Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX (2005) ISBN 0-292-70638-3 329 pp., Price: $24.95 pp. 978-982

Robert Ashford

P.H. Lindert, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press (2004) ISBN 0 521 82174 6 (hardback), 0 521 52916 6 (paperback) vol. 1: xvii + 377 pp., vol. 2: vii + 230 pp pp. 982-983

Simon James

Volume 36, issue 5, 2007

The effect of life values and materialism on buying counterfeit products pp. 677-685

Adrian Furnham and Halldor Valgeirsson

Money obsession, social adjustment, and economic risk perception pp. 686-697

Elisabeth Engelberg and Lennart Sjoberg

Money illusion in intuitive financial judgments: Influences of nominal representation of share prices pp. 698-712

Henrik Svedsater, Amelie Gamble and Tommy Garling

Determinants of superstition pp. 713-733

Benno Torgler

Social mood: The stock market and political cycles pp. 734-744

John R. Nofsinger

Evaluating the need assessment in fiscal equalization schemes at the local government level pp. 745-770

Anja Eichhorst

Loss aversion, price and quality pp. 771-788

Hugh Sibly

Access to gambling and declaring personal bankruptcy pp. 789-801

Barry Boardman and John J. Perry

Stability of U.S. consumption expenditure patterns: 1996-1999 pp. 802-818

Lester D. Taylor

G. Benedetto and S. Robert, Economics and Social Interaction Accounting for Interpersonal Relations, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2005) ISBN 13 978-0-521-84884-8 pp. xv; 299, Price: US$ 80.00 pp. 819-821

Alan J. MacFadyen

J. Faux, The Global Class War: How America's Elite Lost Our Future--And What It Will Take to Win It Back, John Wiley and Sons Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006) 292 pp., $35.99, ISBN-13: 978-0-471-69761-9 pp. 821-824

David Colander

Volume 36, issue 4, 2007

Satisficing in portfolio selection--Theoretical aspects and experimental tests pp. 505-522

Werner Guth

Paradise to parking lots: Creation versus maintenance of a public good pp. 523-536

James Shanley and Philip J. Grossman

Positional goods in the United States and China pp. 537-545

Sara J. Solnick, Li Hong and David Hemenway

Is there as-if bargaining? pp. 546-560

Sven Fischer, Werner Guth and Kerstin Pull

Helping self-help: The fundamental conundrum of development assistance pp. 561-577

David Ellerman

The theory of institutions and collective action in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments pp. 578-594

Keigo Tajima

The anatomy of increasing inequality of U.S. family incomes pp. 595-618

Frederic L. Pryor

Metropolitan poverty: The case of Chicago pp. 619-629

Robert G. Mogull

Poverty alleviation and consumption insurance: Evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico pp. 630-649

Emmanuel Skoufias

Social and political forces as determinants of poverty: A spatial analysis pp. 650-671

Anil Rupasingha and Stephan J. Goetz

R.H. Thaler, Advances in Behavioral Finance II, Russell Sage Foundation, New York (2005) 712 pp., $45.00, ISBN: 0-691-12175-3 pp. 672-674

Hersh Shefrin

E. Shafir, Editor, Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings by Amos Tversky, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2004) ISBN 0-262-20144-5 pp. 675-676

Jean-Robert Tyran

Volume 36, issue 3, 2007

What is the capability approach?: Its core, rationale, partners and dangers pp. 335-359

Des Gasper

An analytical framework for conceptualizing poverty and re-examining the capability approach pp. 360-375

Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti and Stefano Moroni

Income poverty and material hardship: How strong is the association? pp. 376-396

John Iceland and Kurt J. Bauman

Sen and the art of quality of life maintenance: Towards a general theory of quality of life and its causation pp. 397-423

Danny Ruta, Laura Camfield and Cam Donaldson

Capabilities, human capital and education pp. 424-435

Diego Lanzi

Children capabilities: A structural equation model for India pp. 436-450

Maria Laura Di Tommaso

Behavioral economics and socio-economics journals: A citation-based ranking pp. 451-462

Ofer H. Azar

What is behavioral economics? pp. 463-479

John F. Tomer

Prefrontal systems in financial processing pp. 480-489

Marcello Spinella, Bijou Yang and David Lester

E.D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA (2006) ISBN 1-57851-777-X 544 pp., Price: US$ 29.95 pp. 490-495

Roger A. McCain

Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity, A.J. Field. Ann Arbor, Michigan (2002). xvi + 373 pp., Paperback 2004, Cloth $ 54.50, ISBN: 0-472-11224-4 pp. 495-501

Robert W. Dimand

J. Pencavel, Editor, Worker Participation: Lessons from the Worker Co-ops of the Pacific Northwest, Russell Sage Foundation, New York (2001) ISBN 0-87154-655-8 117 pp., Paper, $12.95 pp. 501-503

David Ellerman

Volume 36, issue 2, 2007

The relationship between parenting and materialism in British mothers and fathers of secondary school age children pp. 167-176

Eirini Flouri

Endogenizing Sen's capabilities: An adaptive dynamic analysis pp. 177-190

Antonio D'Agata

Reciprocity, social ties, and competition in markets for experience goods pp. 191-203

Steffen Huck and Jean-Robert Tyran

Contingent valuation controversies: Philosophic debates about economic theory pp. 204-232

Knut Veisten

Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state?: Evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction pp. 233-249

Johannes Schwarze and Marco Harpfer

Why pay extra? Tipping and the importance of social norms and feelings in economic theory pp. 250-265

Ofer H. Azar

An analysis of parochialism at the JPE and QJE pp. 266-274

Marshall H. Medoff

Socio-demographic determinants of disabled people: An empirical approach based on the European Community Household Panel pp. 275-287

Marta Pascual and David Cantarero

Does sickness absence increase the risk of unemployment? pp. 288-310

Patrik Hesselius

Modeling the ultra-pure quartz exploitation in northeastern madagascar: Impact of the activity on the socio-economical situation of the population pp. 311-329

Fenintsoa Andriamasinoro and Angel, Jean-Michel

R.J. Shiller, The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (2003) (p. 366, ISBN 0-691-09172-2) pp. 330-333

David H. Goldenberg

Volume 36, issue 1, 2007

Relative thinking theory pp. 1-14

Ofer H. Azar

Individual learning in different social contexts pp. 15-35

Marco Novarese

The framing of financial windfalls and implications for public policy pp. 36-47

Nicholas Epley and Ayelet Gneezy

Morale and the evolution of norms pp. 48-57

Shinji Teraji

The evolution of social norms: With managerial implications pp. 58-72

Ivar Kolstad

The economics of solidarity: A conceptual framework pp. 73-89

Alexander Kritikos, Friedel Bolle and Jonathan H.W. Tan

Social preferences in wage bargaining: A corporatist approach pp. 90-101

Giuseppina Autiero and Bruna Bruno

`Choice' in collective decision-making processes: Instrumental or expressive approval? pp. 102-117

Philip Jones and Peter Michael Dawson

From homo economicus to homo corporativus: A neglected critique of neoclassical economics pp. 118-127

Carlos Bastien and José Luís Cardoso

Social capital accumulation and the evolution of social participation pp. 128-143

Angelo Antoci, Pier Luigi Sacco and Paolo Vanin

The tree of science and original sin: Do christian religious beliefs constrain the supply of scientists? pp. 144-160

Maury D. Granger and Gregory Price

S.M. Jacoby, The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2005) (248 pp., $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 0-691-11999-6) pp. 161-163

John Budd

D. Levine and A. Rizvi, Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2005) (Price: $65.00, 159 pp., ISBN 9780521848268) pp. 163-165

Jonathan B. Wight