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Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021

This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...

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Forensics, Elasticities and Benford's Law

Demir, Banu - 2019

Estimates of the trade elasticity based on actual trade policy changes are scarce, and the few that exist are all over the place. This paper offers a setting where an exogenous increase in a border tax can be used to estimate the trade elasticity. It shows theoretically and empirically that if...

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The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes

Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Wogrolly, Axel; Zimpelmann, … - 2022

This paper analyzes the stability and distribution of ambiguity attitudes using a broad population sample. Using high-powered incentives, we collected six waves of data on ambiguity attitudes about financial markets—our main application—and climate change. Estimating a structural stochastic...

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The Evolution of Zipf's Law for U.S. Cities

Hackmann, Angelina - 2018

Exploiting the cascade structure of cities and based on a dataset for U.S. cities between 1840 and 2016, the aim of this short paper is to answer three important questions: First, do we observe that the U.S. city size distribution exhibits a smooth transition to Zipf's law from the beginning or...

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Salience and Skewness Preferences

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus - 2019

skewed risks. We show that salience theory of choice under risk can explain this preference for positive skewness, because … unlikely, but outstanding payoffs attract attention. In contrast to alternative models, however, salience theory predicts that … preferences—typically attributed to cumulative prospect theory—are more naturally accommodated by salience theory …

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Time Will Tell : Recovering Preferences When Choices are Noisy

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos - 2019

The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random utility models as the dominant paradigm in applied microeconomics. However, as is well known, it...

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Happy Times : Measuring Happiness Using Response Times

Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental identification problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified assumptions about the...

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Forecasting Inflation with a Zero Lower Bound or Negative Interest Rates : Evidence from Point and Density Forecasts

Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2022

This paper investigates the predictive power of the shadow rate for the inflation rate in countries with a zero lower bound (the US, the UK and Canada) and in those with negative rates (Japan, the Euro Area and Switzerland). Using shadow rates obtained from two different models (the Wu-Xia...

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Log-normal approximation of the equity premium in the production model

Heer, Burkhard; Maußner, Alfred - 2010

The conditional equity premium in the model with production is often approximated by assuming a jointly log-normal distribution of the marginal rate of substitution in consumption and the marginal productivity of capital. We show that, for standard parameterization, this premium is about one...

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Modelling volatilities and conditional correlations in futures markets with a multivariate t distribution

Pesaran, Bahram; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2007

correlations in most markets; possibly reflecting the advent of euro in 1999 and increased interdependence of financial markets. …

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