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Does corporate responsibility increase consumers’ product value? Evidence from two experiments 企业责任是否增加了消费者的产品价值？来自两个实验的证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107189

Julian Conrads , Alexandra Eyberg , Bernd Irlenbusch , Maivand Sarin

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Evidence and perceptions of discrimination in restaurants 餐馆歧视的证据和认知

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107164

Graeme Pearce , Brit Grosskopf

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Trust over toasts: The role of alcohol culture in firms’ access to trade credit 信任胜过敬酒：酒文化在企业获得贸易信贷中的作用

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107200

Dongyang ZHANG , Bo NING , Yiping CHEN , Yizhi WANG

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Endogenous multiplex networks 内生多路网络

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107192

Sumit Joshi , Ahmed Saber Mahmud , Hector Tzavellas

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Strategic information transmission and social preferences 战略信息传递与社会偏好

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107194

Antonio Cabrales , Francesco Feri , Piero Gottardi , Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez

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Does economic liberalization increase government accountability? 经济自由化是否增加了政府的问责制？

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107143

Veeshan Rayamajhee , Raymond J. March

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Skewed aspirations: The impact of economic inequality within the classroom on students’ academic performance 扭曲的愿望：课堂上的经济不平等对学生学习成绩的影响

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107179

Xiqian Cai , Zhengquan Cheng , Yang Jiao

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Tackling emissions and inequality: policy insights from an agent-based model 解决排放和不平等问题：基于主体模型的政策洞察

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107188

Giacomo Ravaioli , Francesco Lamperti , Andrea Roventini , Tiago Domingos

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Experimental methods: Eliciting and measuring social norms 实验方法：诱发和测量社会规范

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107187

Gary Charness , Eugen Dimant , Uri Gneezy , Erin Krupka

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Hedging-based scoring rules for multiple-choice questions 多项选择题的对冲计分规则

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107184

Jingcheng Fu , Xing Zhang , Songfa Zhong

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