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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue … that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that different forms of overconfidence may have opposing effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291552
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Does Revealing Personality Data Affect Prosocial Behavior?
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891048
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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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Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity : What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224088
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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264453
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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech : A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
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Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact? A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment with Crowdfunders
Siemroth, Christoph; Hornuf, Lars - 2021
investigate this question with a decision experiment among crowdfunders, where they choose between a higher return or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218292
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Have Capital Market Anomalies Worldwide Attenuated in the Recent Era of High Liquidity and Trading Activity?
Auer, Benjamin R. - 2018
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908691
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Optimal illusions and decisions under risk
Gollier, Christian - 2005
We examine a static one-risk-free-one-risky asset portfolio choice when the investor's wellbeing is affected by the anticipatory feelings associated to potential capital gains and losses. These feelings can be manipulated by the choice of subjective beliefs on the distribution of returns....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261126
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Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior
Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; van de Ven, Jeroen - 2013
salient perturbations, we propose a strategic foundation of overconfidence. Since overconfident statements are used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328716