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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011

impatience are found to be significant predictors of health-related field behavior, saving decisions and conduct at school. In … preferences ; health status ; savings ; conduct at school ; external validity …

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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013

Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...

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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011

Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...

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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...

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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if … such confounds and to measure productivity changes of unaffected workers in a clean way, we create an environment where … different control treatments, we find that, in the layoff treatment, the productivity of the remaining, unaffected workers drops …

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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences : results from a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020

We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...

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Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior : a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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Debt and conditionality under endogenous terms of trade adjustment

Aizenman, Joshua; Borensztein, Eduardo - 1988

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International reserves : precautionary versus mercantilist views, theory and evidence

Aizenman, Joshua (contributor); Yi, Chae-u (contributor) - 2005

"This paper tests the importance of precautionary and mercantilist motives in accounting for the hoarding of international reserves by developing countries, and provides a model that quantifies the welfare gains from optimal management of international reserves. While the variables associated...

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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?

Aizenman, Joshua (contributor); Jinjarak, Yothin (contributor) - 2006

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