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What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Bertrand, Marianne - 2005

Numerous laboratory studies find that minor nuances of presentation and description change behavior in ways that are inconsistent with standard economic models. How much do these context effect matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to...

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Short- and Long-Horizon Behavioral Factors

Daniel, Kent - 2017

Recent theories suggest that both risk and mispricing are associated with commonality in security returns, and that the loadings on characteristic-based factors can be used to predict future returns. We supplement the market factor with two mispricing factors which capture long- and...

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Happiness, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy

Levinson, Arik - 2013

The economics of "happiness" shares a feature with behavioral economics that raises questions about its usefulness in public policy analysis. What happiness economists call "habituation" refers to the fact that people's reported well-being reverts to a base level, even after major life events...

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Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market Mechanisms

Landier, Augustin; Thesmar, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We...

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Shiller, Robert J. - 1990

Random samples of the Moscow' and New York populations were compared in their attitudes towards free markets by administering identical telephone interviews in the two countries in May, 1990. Although the Soviet respondents were somewhat less likely to accept exchange of money as a solution to...

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Toward a Holistic Approach to Central Bank Trust

Eickmeier, Sandra; Petersen, Luba - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank Household Panel survey for Germany. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from political science and psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors...

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Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...

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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America : A View and Three Case Studies

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …

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Can Emerging Market Bank Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? The Case of Argentina, 1992-1999

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2000

In the early 1990s, after decades of high inflation and financial repression, Argentina embarked on a course of … banking system during the liberalization process. Argentina suffered some fallout from the Mexican tequila crisis of 1995, but … discipline after the crisis made Argentina's banking system quite resilient during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian crises …

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Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets : Lessons from Mexico and Argentina

Goldberg, Linda - 2000

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … credit growth during crisis periods. In Argentina, the loan portfolios of foreign and domestic privately-owned banks are … lower levels of impaired assets have similar loan responsiveness and portfolios. State-owned banks (Argentina) and banks …

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