ASSESSING THE VALUE OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH: THE CASE OF THE BIAS IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEXestimation, politics, econometric models, Consumer Price Index, Bayesian theory, researchEconomists provide sometimes contradictory information about economic systems that contribute to policy design. How does one ...
Negativity Bias explains that things of generally negative nature have a greater impact on our psychological state than things which are generally positive.
This study does not focus on the practice of water fluoridation per se, and is not intended to decide for or against it, but rather, to explore how the debate regarding it is communicated. Understanding this particular case can shed light on how other controversial topics are transformed into...
Nivorozhkin, 2008, Selection bias and event studies: The case of takeover likelihood and takeover premium, Uppsala University working paper.Holmen, M., Nivorozhkin, E., 2008. Selection bias and event studies: the case of takeover likelihood and takeover premium, Uppsala University Working ...
Like the boot camp program, select bias can have a negative impact on the ability to any group that is studied. This mean that each time this program is used, there are always going to be some bias results, because the offenders have a less than positive impact throughout society (Hagan...
The issue being whether or not the actions of the secretary of state and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated the Constitution because the legislature did not make the rules. But, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case claiming that the issues in the case were “moot”, ...
In the case of conflicting dual roles, the selective accessibility of arguments on one side of an issue is likely to be particularly important. Thanks to what Perkins (1989) called the “myside” bias, people quite naturally think of arguments that favor the position they have taken or the ...
On the other hand, someone experiencing commitment bias might think “I need to stick with this decision because backing out now would be highly embarrassing.” Does commitment bias ever have positive consequences? While commitment bias often leads to negative outcomes, it can be valuable in some...
and strictly from a theoretical perspective, we aim to propose the potential development of a new perspective on criminalization, introducing a potential “criminalization bias”. In order to demonstrate both, we use virtual child pornography as a case study (i.e., images depictingvirtualchildren ...
We also evaluate whether the negative implications socially outweigh the positive effects. Regarding this question, we have no a priori expectation. Given that counterfeiting is a criminal activity, it is difficult to directly investigate fake producers and the characteristics of the market. We, ...