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Fostering environmental integrity via investor-focused communications: Private in-house meeting disclosures and greenwashing behaviors

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106946

June Cao , Zijie Huang , Ahmad Usman Shahid

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Measuring success in streaming platforms

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106941

Juan Carlos Gonçalves-Dosantos , Ricardo Martínez , Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano

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Doing more for less? New evidence on lobbying and government contracts

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106942

Şenay Ağca , Deniz Igan , Fuhong Li , Prachi Mishra

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Safety accidents and mutual fund flows

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106875

Xuefeng Hu , Bochen Wu , Rong Xu , Yifan Zhou

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Modeling adaptive forward-looking behavior in epidemics on networks

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106914

Lorenzo Amir Nemati Fard , Alberto Bisin , Michele Starnini , Michele Tizzoni

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Boarding education and children's human capital development

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106948

Junjie Lin , Chunchao Wang , Sheng Xu , Ling Zhang , Yunbin Zhang

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Social norm uncertainty: Measurement using coordination games and behavioral relevance

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106937

Robert Schmidt

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Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown: Triangulation of three data sources in Germany

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106879

Cara Ebert , Janina Isabel Steinert

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Rational vs. irrational beliefs in a complex world

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106898

Gregor Boehl , Cars Hommes

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The optimal choice of scaling in economic agent-based models

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106928

Zsuzsanna Hosszú , András Borsos , Bence Mérő , Nikolett Vágó

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