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The Role of Endogenous Uncertainty in the Forward Discount Bias

Black, Stanley Wilkes - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 115 (2007) 3, pp. 327-364

This study examines what role the concept of endogenous uncertainty can have in explaining a phenomenon of international financial markets, the forward discount bias. The forward discount bias puzzle is unexplained by models assuming economic agents have full knowledge of the structure of the...

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The structure of optimism: “Controllability affects the extent to which efficacy beliefs shape outcome expectancies”

Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 4, pp. 854-867

In this article we theoretically develop and empirically test an integrative conceptual framework linking dispositional optimism as general outcome expectancy to general efficacy beliefs about internal (self) and external (instrumental social support and chance) factors as well as to general...

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Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

market-based measures of expectations are similar to survey-based forecasts although the market-based measures somewhat more …

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A conceptual foundation for expectations of corporate responsibility

Olkkonen, Laura - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 22 (2017) 1, pp. 19-35

Purpose Ability to identify and meet stakeholder expectations is seen as imperative for succeeding in corporate … responsibility (CR). However, the existing literature of CR communication treats expectations predominantly as positive constructions … empirical understanding of stakeholder expectations. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents findings from a targeted …

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In the shadow of offshoring: exploring providers’ expectations

Pinho de Almeida, Mariana; Filipa do Amaral Chambre de … - In: EuroMed Journal of Business 8 (2013) 1, pp. 64-78

providers’ perspective of offshoring. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap, aiming to assess the expectations of … providers when they started working with foreign firms and compare those expectations with their perceptions of reality. Design … broad categories of expectations and perceptions emerged: business‐, firm‐ and client‐related. “Creation of business” and …

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A Gift-Exchange With Probabilistic Payoffs

Luzuriaga, Miguel; Kunze, Oliver - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

This article describes how there exists ample experimental evidence demonstrating a positive wage-effort relationship in which the results from the employee's effort lead to deterministic firm payoffs. The authors thus investigate a reframed version of the gift-exchange game in which the firms'...

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Information Technology Governance Adoption: Understanding its Expectations Through the Lens of Organizational Citizenship

Macadar, Marie Anne; Luciano, Edimara Mezzomo; … - In: International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 22-32

discussed in order to understand the behavioral changes expectations along the ITG mechanisms adoption. The preliminary results …

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Erwartungen an Interessenvertretungen aus der Perspektive von abhängig Beschäftigten / Expectations towards works councils from the employees` point of view

Wilkesmann, Maximiliane; Wilkesmann, Uwe; Virgillito, … - In: Arbeit 20 (2011) 1, pp. 5-17

’ expectations towards works councils turn out to be a blind spot of industrial relations research. In order to fill this gap we … conducted a qualitative exploratory study. Our results show that four types of expectations can be differentiated: (1 … issues. Moreover, the interviewees remarked some expectations with regard to personal characteristics of works councils. A …

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Constraints in the Demand for Education: What Can we Learn from Subjective Assessments?

Sorokina, Olga V. - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 1

Abstract While the large disparities in educational attainment by socioeconomic status in the United States point towards the importance of credit constraints, there is no consensus in the economic literature regarding their pervasiveness. To evaluate how subjective information can enhance our...

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Indeterminacy and the Stability Puzzle in Non-Convex Economies

Evans, George W; McGough, Bruce - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 5 (2005) 1

Abstract We examine stability under learning of sunspot equilibria in Real Business Cycle type models with indeterminacies. Our analysis emphasizes the importance of examining alternative representations of sunspot solutions. A general bivariate reduced form contains parameter regions in which...

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