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Although the relationship between religion and economic development on the macro-level has been investigated, it is … responsibility. Most of these factors matter for household financial decision-making, albeit to differing degrees. Using our religion …
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Many argue that elements of a society s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development.However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models.Here we argue that trustworthiness is the economically relevant component of a society s culture and...
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This study investigates how investments in painted arts compare to those in stocks in terms of risk return trade off using Sharpe and Treynor ratios and Markowitz efficient frontiers. A large database was analysed consisting of more than 10500 auction prices of Belgian painted art over the...
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This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...
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A variety of public policies aim to influence workers’ disposition of preretirement lump-sum distributions (LSDs) from pensions. We use the implementation of several policy changes as natural experiments to test for rational and behavioral motives for saving behavior. Using data from the HRS...
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Abstract: Economics seems largely based on the assumption that monetary incentives improve performance. By contrast, a large literature in psychology, including a rich tradition of experimental work, claims just the opposite. In this paper we present and discuss a set of experiments designed to...
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The financial services sector has internationalized over the last few decades.Important differences and similarities in financial behavior can be anticipated between both consumers within a particular country and those living in different countries.For companies in this market, the appropriate...
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during Ramadan and in big cities if the share of votes to religious-political parties increases, suggesting that religion …
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church membership or attendance, are more risk averse. Second, we obtain some evidence that Protestants are more risk averse … than Catholics. Third, our data suggest that the link between risk aversion and religion is driven by social aspects of … church membership, rather than by religious beliefs themselves. …
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