The employment relationship is characterized by incomplete contracts. Labor contracts often take the form of a fixed wage without explicit performance incentives meaning that workers have a large degree of discretion over effort levels. As a consequence, an employee’s general jobattitude...

In close interaction, group allocations are often fair due to our desire to betreated fairly and to act fairly. When this desire conflicts with other strong motivationsa typical reaction is to trade off fairness against these other concerns. Inequ(al)ity aversion allows capturing such trade off...

Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been established as one prominentexplanation for the equity premium puzzle. In this paper we address two issuesrelated to the effects of MLA on risky investment decisions. First, we assess therelative impact of feedback frequency and investment flexibility (via...