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  2. Experimental finance - Wikipedia

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    A natural experiment happens when some feature of the real world is randomly changed which allows using the exogenous variation due to this change to study causal effects of an otherwise endogenous explanatory variable. Natural experiments are popular in economic and finance research since they offer intuitive interpretation of the underlying ...

  3. Experimental economics - Wikipedia

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    Generality in games is addressed by replacing fixed parameters with "self-tuning" functions of experience, allowing pseudo-parameters to change over the course of a game and to also vary systematically across games. Modern experimental economists have done much notable work recently. Roberto Weber has raised issues of learning without feedback.

  4. How to Turn Loose Change Into Cash -- Savings Experiment - AOL

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    If you're like tens of millions of other Americans, chances are you've got a collection of loose change somewhere in your house -- in a jar, a piggy bank, a dish--scattered in various places. And ...

  5. Scientific management - Wikipedia

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    In Scientific Management, the responsibility of the success or failure of an organization is not solely on the shoulder of the workers, as it is in the old management systems. According to Scientific Management, the managers are taking half of the burden by being responsible for securing the proper work conditions for workers' prosperity. [7]

  6. Frederick Winslow Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks. Future US Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis coined the term scientific management in the course of his argument for the Eastern Rate Case before the Interstate ...

  7. Managerial economics - Wikipedia

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    Profit management is technology enabled, as firms must be quick to respond to rapid changing market and to know the true economic cost of its products and services. Management needs to drive cooperation between different functions of the firm such as sales, marketing, and finance, to ensure the teams recognize the importance of coordinated effort.

  8. Schmidt (worker) - Wikipedia

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    Schmidt is a character in Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor.His true identity was Henry Noll. [1]In Principles, Taylor described how between 1898–1901 at Bethlehem Steel he had motivated Schmidt to increase his workload from carrying 12 tons of pig iron per day to 47 tons. [2]

  9. Fair division experiments - Wikipedia

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    1. Subjects were given several possible allocations of money, and were asked which allocation they prefer. One experiment [17] found that the most important factors were Pareto-efficiency and Rawlsian motive for helping the poor (maximin principle). However, a later experiment found that these conclusions only hold for students of economics and ...