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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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A Note on Moral Licensing and Foot-In-The-Door Effect
Ulph, Alistair; Panzone, Luca; Hilton, Denis - 2019
Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their past actions. Such inconsistencies appear to violate economists' assumption of rational consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141058
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The signalling channel of central bank interventions: Modelling the yen / US dollar exchange rate
Chen, Yu-fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - 2011
This paper presents a theoretical framework analysing the signalling channel of exchange rate interventions as an … theoretical premise of the model is that interventions convey signals that communicate information about the exchange rate … objectives of central bank. The model is used to analyse the impact of Japanese FX interventions during the period 1999 -2011 on …
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