Analysis Of Economic Behavior Research Articles

An Analysis of Economic Behavior Behind Modern Social Networks—Taking Online Game Users as an Example

This research paper examines the economic factors influencing modern social networks, focusing specifically on online game users. The study aims to explore the impact of users' sense of belonging in social networks on their usage intention. A research model is proposed, and data is collected through a questionnaire distributed to college students aged 18 to 30. The collected data is analyzed using SPSS, including descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. The results indicate a significant positive correlation between users' sense of belonging to social networks and their willingness to use online games. The findings suggest that enhancing the social authenticity of online games and carefully selecting the first social platform for publicity are crucial strategies for online game operators' social network marketing. The research contributes to the understanding of the economic behavior behind social networks and provides insights for the sustainable development of the online game industry.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSCIOUSNESS IS A KEY DRIVER OF THE TAX SERVICE OF UKRAINE

At the intersection of the past and the future there is a point of present, which, due to external and internal socio-economic requirements, activates the subject himself. In the interrelational phenomena of economic consciousness, which bears its personal direction and in manifestations of external economic activity of the subject, acting as a regulator, relying on empirical studies of a dialectic nature, one of the main studies of our time is economic behavior. All factors are unifying, coordination or contradictions of economic consciousness and behavior still act as a dynamic factor for development and progress, which is a key vector of human-tax relations. Without an individual vision of the universe, the present, personality problems cannot be covered and seen by all sides of economic and social society, based on trust and reliability. The level of trust and reliability characterizes the quality of economic and social consciousness of citizens, business, representatives of enterprises, which manifests itself and increases in the development of the interrelationships of civil society and carries results for the tax service. Formulation of the goals and objectives of the article (setting a task). A large amount of research on social consciousness, a wide and varied direction of studying the direction and connection with other disciplines helps to more closely reveal the problems of society and the individual. The purpose of the study is to separate and determine the individuality of a person in the process of economic and social consciousness, attitude and manifestations of personality and group behavior at all levels of this concept, analysis, specificity and structural content exactly inherent in the tax component. Methodology. During the study, to study and achieve the goal, the analysis of theoretical aspects and generalizations of scientific sources, dialectical cognition of formation and manifestations of social consciousness of a person when paying taxes, found a kind of economic concept, methods of induction and deduction, abstraction of theoretical provisions and dialectic cognition were carried out. Results. The article raises the issue of the importance of social consciousness of the country's tax service for further socio-economic growth and improvement of people's lives, on the basis of intergroup and interpersonal interactions and relationships at a high micro level, on the foundation of trust and cooperation between society and government, unified work and development of state, economic, civic platforms. It is with a person that the mechanism of development, accumulation and effective use begins, so it is the social consciousness of the individual that carries the basis for the further development of the state. The analysis of elements and component of socio-economic consciousness in the individuality of a person in the economic system is carried out and the main components, such as trust and reliability, are determined. The analysis of economic behavior of the individual when making a rational decision in the world of economic changes of the tax service is carried out. The practical component of the main provisions of the concept and levels of social consciousness, and its role in the general concept of the economic component can further develop and be used in the process of developing the analysis and development of the individual with individual behavior and personal decision-making for the fiscal service when paying taxes. Value/originality. The theory of socio-economic consciousness itself is not new, but the direction of study and application of individual characteristics of taxpayers is new and little researched, so it gives a new impetus to interest and further development of the detection of theoretical aspects, generalization to definition and essence, outlining the main directions of development and formation for the future.

Catholic Social Thought And New Institutional Economics: A Preliminary Assessment of Their Affinities and Areas of Potential Convergence

The paper explores the potential link between Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and the theoretical developments associated with New Institutional Economics (NIE). The emphasis is put in particular on the contributions of two Nobel Prize winners in economics, Douglass C. North and Elinor Ostrom, and on the work of political scientist Vincent Ostrom. By adjusting the neoclassical presumptions dominating modern economic theory to include culture, ideas, and religious beliefs in the analysis of economic behavior, the economic and social theorizing developed by these scholars advances a framework that has significant affinities with CST’s foundational critique of economic concepts and theories and with its normative position regarding the nature and functioning of social and economic systems.

Catholic Social Thought and New Institutional Economics: An Assessment of Their Affinities and Areas of Potential Convergence

AbstractThe potential link between Catholic social teaching (CST) and the theoretical developments associated with new institutional economics (NIE) are explored. The emphasis is on the contributions of two Nobel Prize winners in economics—Douglass C. North and Elinor Ostrom—and on the work of political scientist Vincent Ostrom. By adjusting the neoclassical presumptions dominating modern economic theory to include culture, ideas, and religious beliefs in the analysis of economic behavior, the economic and social theorizing developed by these scholars advances a framework that has significant affinities with CST’s foundational critique of economic concepts and theories and with its normative position regarding the nature and functioning of social and economic systems.

Economic-behavioral Analysis of Delinquent Acts Based on the Report of Juvenile Offenders in Confinement

Abstract From a behavioral-economic approach of delinquent behavior, this research aimed to identify potential consequences that could alter the cost of crime from the offender’s perspective. A questionnaire prepared to assess the level of informational and utilitarian reinforcement and punishment of these consequences was answered by 118 juvenile offenders in confinement. The reported level of informational reinforcement did not predict the level of multiplicity of offenses committed. The reported levels of utilitarian reinforcement, informational punishment, and utilitarian punishment predicted this level of multiplicity. Only the level of utilitarian punishment decreased the likelihood of an offender having been involved in more types of criminal acts. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

The Future of Econometrics

The author makes a deep revision of the main implications of Nonlinearity, Complexity and Chaos Theory in the analysis of economic behaviour and particularly in Econometric Analysis, analysing the characteristics of the new Complex Econometrics.

Социологический анализ экономического поведения населения России

Социологический анализ экономического поведения населения России

Identifying Functional Regions in Australia Using Hierarchical Aggregation Techniques

AbstractThis paper continues our work focused on developing a new socio‐economic geography for Australia such that the chosen spatial aggregation of data is based on an analysis of economic behaviour. The underlying hypothesis is that the development of a geographical classification based on underlying economic behaviour will provide new insights into critical issues of regional performance, including unemployment differentials, the impact of industry, infrastructure and changes in local public expenditure on local labour markets. As a precursor to detailed work on the 2006 Census of Population and Housing data, we establish the proof of concept in this paper of the Intramax methodology using 2001 Journey‐to‐Work data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the state of New South Wales. The functional regionalisation generated by the Intramax method is then tested using ABS labour force data. We compare 2001 ABS Census of Population and Housing data aggregated by the ABS labour force regions to the same data aggregated using our functional regions. The results demonstrate the potential value of this technique for the development of a new geography.

Emotional balances in experimental consumer choices

This paper presents an experiment, which builds a bridge over the gap between neuroscience and the analysis of economic behaviour. We apply the mathematical theory of Pavlovian conditioning, known as Recurrent Associative Gated Dipole (READ), to analyse consumer choices in a computer-based experiment. Supplier reputations, consumer satisfaction, and customer reactions are operationally defined and, together with prices, related to READ's neural dynamics. We recorded our participants' decisions with their timing, and then mapped those decisions on a sequence of events generated by the READ model. To achieve this, all constants in the differential equations were determined using simulated annealing with data from 129 people. READ predicted correctly 96% of all consumer choices in a calibration sample (n=1290), and 87% in a test sample (n=903), thus outperforming logit models. The rank correlations between self-assessed and dipole-generated consumer satisfactions were 89% in the calibration sample and 78% in the test sample, surpassing by a wide margin the best linear regression model.

Economic Behavior of Wood Sector Enterprises of Karelia Republic under Conditions of Market Transformations

The article presents the analysis of economic behavior of wood sector enterprises of Karelia Republic during transition to market. Findings show that the absence of adequate institutional conditions has set many enterprises on the brink of survival. The influence of formal institutions is essentially leveled by inefficient informal actions. Examples of positive changes testify not so much that the formation of effective institutions is taking place, as about the degree of adaptation of successful enterprises while using all favorable external factors. The analysis is based on data of long-term economic and sociological surveys of Karelia forest territories.

Human Nature and Economic Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Development of American Institutionalism

Recent articles have explored from different perspectives the psychological foundations of American institutionalism from its beginning to the interwar years (Hodgson 1999; Lewin 1996; Rutherford 2000a, 2000b; Asso and Fiorito 2003). Other authors had previously dwelled upon the same topic in their writings on the originsand development of the social sciences in the United States (Curti 1980; Degler 1991; Ross 1991). All have a common starting point: the emergence during the second half of the nineteenth century of instinct-based theories of human agency. Although various thinkers had already acknowledged the role of impulses and proclivities, it was not until Darwin's introduction of biological explanations into behavioral analysis that instincts entered the rhetoric of the social sciences in a systematic way (Hodgson 1999; Degler 1991). William James, William McDougall, and C. Lloyd Morgan gave instinct theory its greatest refinement, soon stimulating its adoption by those economists who were looking for a viable alternative to hedonism. At the beginning of the century, early institutionalists like Thorstein Veblen, Robert F. Hoxie, Wesley C. Mitchell, and Carleton Parker employed instinct theory in their analysis of economic behavior. Their attention wasdrawn by the multiple layers of interaction between instinctive motivation and intentional economic behavior. Debates on the role of instinctsin economicswere not confined to the different souls of American Institutionalism, and many more “orthodox” figures, like Irving Fisher or Frank Taussig, actively participated.

Economic systems and the Buddhist world view: the 21st century nexus

The possibility of a fruitful dialogue between Buddhism and economics has generally been repudiated in Western social science discourse. This situation is now changing in recognition of the key role of both social norms and beliefs, and economic matters, in current global political and military tensions, environmental problems, and efforts to change institutions and economies to bring higher levels of welfare. Even within mainstream economics, there are increasing efforts to incorporate socio-cultural influences into the assumptions and analysis of economic behaviour and activities. These developments provide a new basis for mutually beneficial exchange between studies of the economic dimensions of society, and the offerings of the Buddhist world view, logic and potential problem-solving approach. This paper describes some key features of “Buddhist economics” and builds upon Schumacher's original ideas and other more recent work concerned with the close correspondence between economic (or “livelihood”) aspects of human life and the philosophy, world view, and practice of Buddhism. A systematic comparison of the relevant dimensions of Buddhism and neoclassical economics demonstrates that Buddhist philosophy has intrinsic economic implications and highlights the potential relevance and value of integrated socio-economic analyses for application in the contemporary global context.

Transferts de patrimoine dus à l'inflation : 1971-1979

Inflation is a poweful engine of wealth redistribution. Financial portfolios are particularly affected because of inflation-induced, real transfers from creditors to debtors. In spite of certain data deficiencies, it is possible to evaluate the order of magnitude of wealth transfers on the major elements in the financial portfolios of the various sectors. For the decade 1971-1979, during which inflation has been highly variable and quite strong on average, the resulting estimates, though probably understating the actual amounts, are far from negligible by comparison with the major aggregates traditionnally used in the analysis of economic behavior. Taking such transfers into account implies substantial revisions in these variables as measured in national accounts. With regard to money holdings and bank deposits and credits, the household sector is the major loser at the inflation game, while the net debtor sectors — i.e. enterprises and, to a lesser extent, the public sector — enjoyed real gains all over the period. Similar conclusions apply for obligations, although the corresponding estimates are less precise and reliable.

Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Methods: Applications to Poisson Models

Pseudo maximum likelihood techniques are applied to basic Poisson models and to Poisson models with specification errors. In the latter case it is shown that consistent and asymptotically normal estimators can be obtained without specifying the p.d.f. of the disturbances. These estimators are compared both from the finite sample and the asymptotic point of view. Quasi generalized PML estimators, which asymptotically dominate all PML estimators, are also proposed. Finally, bivariate and panel data Poisson models are discussed. THE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR often leads to the study of characteristics taking a small number of positive values. The classical linear model is not adapted to explain how such discrete variables depend on other quantitative or qualitative variables. The reasons are similar to those usually given in the case of an endogenous qualitative variable: the shape of the observation set does not correspond to a linear model, the assumption of normality of the disturbances cannot be made, since the endogenous variables take a small number of values with strictly positive probabilities, and the prediction formulae which are deduced from a linear model give impossible values. In the models considered in the literature to describe discrete variables (Cox and Lewis [2], El. Sayyad [3], Frome, Kutner, and Beauchamp [4], Gilbert [5], Hausman, Hall, and Griliches [8]; see also Lancaster [12]) the endogenous variable is assumed to have a Poisson distribution conditional upon the exogenous variables. The parameter of this distribution is a function of the values of the exogenous variables. The choice of such a model is justified if the dependent variable counts the occurrence of a given event during a fixed period and if the usual assumptions of the Poisson process are satisfied. For instance, the model is adapted to describe daily numbers of oil tankers' arrivals in a port, the number of accidents at work by factory, or the number of patents applied for and received by firms (Hausman, Hall, and Griliches [8]).

The Deliberateness of Economic Choices

In the investigation of any new subjectmatter area, doubts usually emerge regarding the adequacy of the theoretical framework employed. Increased interest in analysis of economic behavior, especially managerial behavior of farm operators, has created a number of such doubts. The recent note by Lee and Chastain2 in the Journal of Farm Economics is a case in point. This paper, like the Lee and Chastain paper, explores the validity of the postulate of maximizing behavior as applied to studies of economic behavior. As Professor Knight said of economic analysis about 40 years ago, It assumes that men's acts are ruled by conscious motive; that ... they are directed to the 'satisfaction of wants'.3 Knight used the words rational and planned to define this postulate about behavior. This same postulate seems to underlie most recent studies of managerial and consumer behavior.

Book Review: Psychological Analysis of Economic Behavior

Book Review: Psychological Analysis of Economic Behavior

Review of Psychological analysis of economic behavior.

Review of Psychological analysis of economic behavior.

Book Review: Psychological Analysis of Economic Behavior

Book Review: Psychological Analysis of Economic Behavior

Orthodox Economic Theory: A Defense

T JO WRITE in defense of economic theory is distinctly embarrassing two reasons. First, I don't like the idea of orthodoxy; it implies dogma and eternal verities and other absolutes that I do not conceive are to be found in any field of knowledge, least of all in a social science. And, second, I have found it increasingly difficult to define exactly what it is that I am supposed to be defending. I am not even sure I am as well off as the man who said he could not define an elephant but he knew one when he saw one. Nor am I helped by the learned contributions to the subject. Palgrave's Dictionary dislikes the term orthodox and wants it abolished. The Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences lists ten schools or systems of economics eight of them since the classical school-but not one of them is denominated as orthodox. Mitchell in his review of Commons' Institutional Economics contrasts institutional economics with what for lack of a better term is called and perhaps this is the clue. At any rate, it may serve present purposes if I start with the proposition that there are three types of economic thinking, and only three, of any widespread importance in the United States today. These are: (i) economics, (2) institutional economics, and (3) Marxian economics. And if I have to define economics I might define it as that economics which is neither institutionalist nor Marxian. For positive definition one might say that economics is the analysis of economic behavior under existing institutions, whereas institutional economics is the study of economic institutions in evolution, hoping thereby to get some knowledge of where we are going; and Marxian economics is a dogmatic brand of institutional economics which claims to