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A taxometric analysis of problem gambling data from a South African national urban sample

Author: Kincaid, Harold; Daniels, Reza Che; Dellis, Andrew; Hofmeyr, Andre; Sharp, Carla; Rousseau, Jacques; Ross, Don Date: 28 May 2015 We investigate the question whether problem gambling (PG) in a recent South African sample, as measured by the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), is dimensional or categorical. We use two taxometric procedures, Mean Above Minus Below A ... Read more
Learning, cognition and ideology

Author: Ross, Don Date: 2003 Invited to give the 2000 Rick Turner Memorial Lecture, I pondered the following question: What explains the fact that the sincere thought of a brilliant and heroic person such as Turner can appear preposterous to me, if bad faith or scholarly ... Read more
Opportunity costs of trade-related capacity development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Mugadza, Tendeukayi Date: 2010 Recent studies have documented the impact of institutions and infrastructure development on trade flows. This paper studies these issues in the context 010n90in9 trade-related capacity building initiatives and evaluates the opportunity cost ... Read more
A procedure to test human behaviour under producer scrounger conditions

Author: Etheredge, George Date: 2012 This paper examines the applicability of the ‘producer scrounger’ model, used in the biological literature to model social foraging, to human beings. It is argued that humans do find themselves in economically important situations that can ... Read more
Product innovation as a static game of incomplete information in a non-Bayesian environment

Author: Wolf, Guy Date: 2001 The apparent failure of incumbent firms to produce radical innovations is one that continues to provoke significant debate in the economic literature. This phenomenon, termed the "Incumbent's Curse" by Chandy and Tellis (2000, p.2) receives ... Read more
Regulation of choice behavior : an experiment investigating the hypothesis that people bundle sequences of expected rewards

Author: Schuhr, Alexander Date: 2015 This thesis discusses reward bundling as a process that enables decision makers to self-regulate their choice behavior. Most empirical work on intertemporal choice has focused on analyzing impulsive choice. Less effort has been dedicated to ... Read more
The South African government, the pharmaceutical companies and access to HIV

Author: Cleary, Susan Date: 2001 Bibliography: leaves 67-82. Read more
Stochastic models in experimental economics

Author: Monroe, Brian Albert Date: 2018 Shortly after the introduction of Expected Utility Theory (EUT), economists and psychologists began publishing results that showed choices made by experimental subjects which apparently violate one or more of the EUT axioms. I discuss economists' ... Read more
Techniques for general modelling of innovation strategies in entrant-incumbent scenarios

Author: Wolf, Guy Daniel Date: 2003 This thesis contributes to the literature in industrial organization economics on strategic behavior with respect to innovation. In particular, it seeks to extend the applicability of conclusions drawn from a Nash Equilibrium framework in ... Read more
Two petro-states diverge: explaining the institutional evolution of Nigeria and Angola

Author: Harvey, Ross Date: 2019 It is well-established that oil wealth in weakly institutionalised states tends to undermine development instead of catalysing it. Cross-country regressions, however, struggle to explain why comparably oil-wealthy countries such as Nigeria ... Read more