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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019
increased online-search activity. Consistently, an experiment that just encourages search-engine usage produces very similar … results. Another experiment provides no evidence of experimenter-demand effects. Overall, results suggest that incentive …
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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021
, we run an experiment to test the model’s main predictions in a context where the researcher knows the true underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219070
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Income and Happiness Across Europe : Do Reference Values Matter?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2021
Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and life satisfaction, reference income exerts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316734
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READ-GER : Introducing German Real-Time Regional Accounts Data for Revision Analysis and Nowcasting
Lehmann, Robert - 2023
nine macroeconomic aggregates and the 16 German states. I conduct both a revision analysis and a nowcasting experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358678
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The Rise (and Fall) of Tech Clusters
Kichko, Sergey - 2020
Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823154
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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
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Do Survey Expectations of Stock Returns Reflect Risk-Adjustments?
Adam, Klaus - 2019
Motivated by the observation that survey expectations of stock returns are inconsistent with rational return expectations under real-world probabilities, we investigate whether alternative expectations hypotheses entertained in the asset pricing literature are consistent with the survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892287
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Five Facts About Beliefs and Portfolios
Giglio, Stefano - 2019
We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with administrative data on their portfolio composition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866380
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Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica; Cooper, Jan - 2021
measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman’s agency based on the interview, which we treat … resulting five-question index is as strongly correlated with the coded qualitative interview as is an index that uses all of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235120
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Hybrid historical simulation VaR and ES : performance in developed and emerging markets
Zikovic, Sasa; Filer, Randall - 2009
We introduce a new hybrid approach to joint estimation of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) for high quantiles of return distributions. We investigate the relative performance of VaR and ES models using daily returns for sixteen stock market indices (eight from developed and eight...
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