Publications des institutions partenaires
The micro- and macroeconomics of unemployment and job protection
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Essays in macroeconomics and economic development
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Neural mechanisms supporting the effects of social context on economic decision making
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Computational and brain stimulation approaches to study the influence of visually guided comparisons in value-based decision-making
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Parsing Reward: Behavioral, neural, and pharmacological investigations of motivational and hedonic dimensions or reward
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
An industrial design solution for integrating NMR magnetic field sensors into an MRI scanner
Purpose: Neuroimaging research relies on the skills of increasingly multidisciplinary individuals and often requires the installation and use of additional home-built or third-party equipment. The purpose of the present work was the safe, ergonomic, durable, and aesthetically pleasing installation of magnetic field monitoring equipment into a scanner, while keeping the setup...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Tx/Rx head coil induces less RF transmit-related heating than body coil in conductive metallic objects outside the active area of the head coil
The transmit–receive (Tx/Rx) birdcage head coil is often used for excitation instead of the body coil because of the presumably lower risk of heating in and around conductive implants. However, this common practice has not been systematically tested. To investigate whether the Tx/Rx birdcage head coil produces less heating than the body coil when scanning individuals with implants,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Comparison of the working memory load in N-Back and working memory span tasks by means of EEG frequency band power and P300 amplitude
According to theoretical accounts, both, N-back and complex span tasks mainly require working memory (WM) processing. In contrast, simple span tasks conceptually mainly require WM storage. Thus, conceptually, an N-back task and a complex span task share more commonalities as compared to a simple span task. In the current study, we compared an N-back task, a complex operation span...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Impact evaluation methods in public economics : a brief introduction to randomized evaluations and comparison with other methods
Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable measurements of the effects of different policy options on the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
‘High’ achievers? Cannabis access and academic performance
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands that discriminated access via licensed cannabis shops based on an individual’s nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using administrative panel data on course grades of local students...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Vouchers for future kidney transplants to overcome “chronological incompatibility” between living donors and recipients
Background: The waiting list for kidney transplantation is long. The creation of “vouchers” for future kidney transplants enables living donation to occur when optimal for the donor and transplantation to occur later, when and if needed by the recipient.
Methods: The donation of a kidney at a time that is optimal for the donor generates a “voucher” that only a specified...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Neural control of social decisions
Social decisions are among the most important choices in our life. They are often proposed to rely on functionally specialized neural circuitry, based on correlated neural activity observed with neuroimaging. However, neuroimaging studies usually do not allow conclusions about whether the identified neural activity causally controls behavior, rather than being a consequence of it....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Overconfidence and investment: an experimental approach
A positive relation between overconfidence and investment provision has been theoretically justified and practically assumed in the literature, but has not been thoroughly investigated. We test and confirm this positive relation between direct measures of overconfidence in one's financial knowledge and choice of investment. More precisely, strong overconfidence results in excess...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Rage against the machines: labor-Saving technology and unrest in England, 1830-32
Can the adoption of labor-saving technology lead to social instability and unrest? We examine a canonical historical case, the so-called ‘Captain Swing’ riots in 1830s Britain. Variously attributed to the adverse consequences of weather shocks, the shortcomings of the Poor Law, or the after-effects of enclosure, we emphasize the importance of a new technology – the threshing machine...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Aggregate sentiment and investment: an experimental study
Sentiment indices, such as measures of consumer confidence, are often discussed as potential indicators of future investment, consumption and growth. However, documenting a causal relationship between consumer confidence and output — and understanding the precise nature of the relationship — using field data has been challenging. We rely on the high degree of control afforded by a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Reward, value, and salience
Value and salience are key variables for associative learning, decision-making, and attention. In this chapter we review definitions of value and salience, and describe human neuroimaging studies that dissociate these variables. Value increases with the magnitude and probability of reward but decreases with the magnitude and probability of punishment, whereas salience increases with...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Protektionismus ist keine Lösung
Die Globalisierung hat in den USA Arbeitsplätze gekostet. Diese Stellen lassen sich mit Einschränkungen des internationalen Handels jedoch nicht gezielt zurückholen.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 19/12/2016
Did declining social mobility cause Trump’s rise? In a word, no.
Institution partenaire
English / 09/12/2016
Dynamical representation of dominance relationships in the human rostromedial prefrontal cortex
Humans and other primates have evolved the ability to represent their status in the group's social hierarchy, which is essential for avoiding harm and accessing resources. Yet it remains unclear how the human brain learns dominance status and adjusts behavior accordingly during dynamic social interactions. Here we address this issue with a combination of fMRI and transcranial...
Institution partenaire
English / 05/12/2016
Unique equilibrium in contests with incomplete information
Considered are imperfectly discriminating contests in which players may possess private information about the primitives of the confiict, such as the contest technology, valuations of the prize, cost functions, and budget constraints. We find general conditions under which a given contest of this sort admits a unique pure-strategy Nash equilibrium. In particular, provided that all...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2016
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