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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062414
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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
Aguero, Jorge - EconWPA - 2005
This paper proposes a new test to distinguish between the two leading theories of discrimination: preference versus information. Discrimination based on preferences occurs when people behave as if they refuse to change their stereotypes about the capabilities of discriminated individuals. Those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076553
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Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - EconWPA - 2002
We report results of an internet experiment designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets. More than 6000 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm, participated in the experiment. As predicted by theory, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062726
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Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - EconWPA - 2002
We report results of an internet experiment designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets. More than 6000 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm, participated in the experiment. As predicted by theory, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413109
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Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Capacity
Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we investigate how “civil service” personnel management interacts with bureaucratic discretion to create high capacity, expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076581
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Procrastination on Long-Term Projects
O'Donoghue, Ted; Rabin, Matthew - EconWPA - 2003
Previous papers on time-inconsistent procrastination assume projects are completed once begun. We develop a model in which a person chooses whether and when to complete each stage of a long-term project. In addition to procrastination in starting a project, a naive person might undertake costly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076661
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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.
Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005
Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124942
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The Effect of Affect on Economic and Strategic Decision Making
Hermalin, Benjamin E.; Isen, Alice M. - EconWPA - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126084
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Staying Together or Breaking Apart: Policy-Makers’ Endogenous Coalitions Formation in the European Economic and Monetary Union
Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di; Engwerda, Jacob; Plasmans, Joseph - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126333