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Leippold, Markus; Lohre, Harald - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

International evidence on the accrual anomaly is sparse and conﬂicting. Testing for accrual mispricing in 28 equity markets, we provide statistical evidence for anomalous returns in some countries. However, we question whether this result might have occurred by chance alone and that it might...

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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects

Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2012

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection … occur at early stages, where selection is either counter-competitive (i.e. individuals with low skill signals are selected …

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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001

particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …

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Better luck next time : learning through retaking

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey - 2014

cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and …

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Genetic distance and international migrant selection

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment

Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...

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