In light of the under-explored potential of Simon s theory of altruism, the purpose of the present article is to review his explanation of altruism and to point out some of its implications for behavioural economics and theories of economic organization. In the course of the argument, this article relates Simon s theory of altruism to Hamilton s theory of kinship selection and then proceeds to ...

Diffusion processes, and their discrete time counterparts, random walk models, have demonstrated an ability to account for a wide range of findings from behavioural decision making for which the purely algebraic and deterministic models often used in economics and psychology cannot account. Recent studies that record neural activations in non-human primates during perceptual decision making tas...

Labour income taxation is a central policy topic because labour income makes up the majority of national income and most taxes are in the end taxes on labour. In order to quantify how behavioural responses of labour income earners a ect tax revenue, the Swedish Labour Income Microsimulation Model (SLIMM) is constructed and used to evaluate tax reforms. The model simulates taxable income respons...

This thesis attempts to justify a normative role for methodology by sketching a pragmatic way out of the dichotomy between two major strands in economic methodology: empiricism and postmodernism. It is important to understand that my thesis is about methodology and this means that I do not add another recipe with prescriptions as to how economics needs to change in order to become a " better " ...

Focusing on delayed outcomes facilitates goal pursuit, but people exhibit a clear preference for immediate outcomes. Introducing incentives (rewards or penalties) that are contingent later performance can act as commitment device to facilitate long-term pursuit. Here we apply these behavioural insights the design of incentive-based electricity products aim commit consumers conserve electricity....

Simulations of artificial stock markets were considered as early as 1964 [Sti64] and multi-agent ones were introduced as early as 1989 [KM89]. Starting the early 90's [PAH + 94, LLS00, Ter00], collaborations of economists and physicists produced increasingly realistic simulation platforms. Currently, the market stylized facts are easily reproduced and one has now to address the realistic detail...

Simulations of artificial stock markets were considered as early as 1964 [Sti64] and multi-agent ones were introduced as early as 1989 [KM89]. Starting the early 90's [PAH + 94, LLS00, Ter00], collaborations of economists and physicists produced increasingly realistic simulation platforms. Currently, the market stylized facts are easily reproduced and one has now to address the realistic detail...