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On self-interest and greed
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2014
First the assumption of self-interest as applied in Economics is presented. Here we also discuss areas in which (many) people behave less self- but more other-regarding than traditional economic models assume. Then, greedy behaviour is considered as existing in the political and economic...
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Fear, trust and demand for regulation : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Russia
Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen; … - 2022
attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is … conditional on the level of fear. Higher interpersonal trust is related to lower demand for Covid-19 regulation, while higher …
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Bubbles in hybrid markets : how expectations about algorithmic trading affect human trading
Farjam, Mike; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2015
Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments with only human traders. Today markets are substantially determined by algorithmic traders. Here we use a laboratory experiment to measure changes of human trading behavior if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392621
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Peer effects in risk taking
Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2012 - This version: Dec 20, 2012, First version: July 13, 2012
This paper examines the effect of peers on individual risk taking. In the absence of informational motives, we investigate why social utility concerns may drive peer effects. We test for two main channels: utility from payoff differences and from conforming to the peer. We show experimentally...
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Unleashing animal spirits : self-control and overpricing in experimental asset markets
Kocher, Martin; Lucks, Konstantin E.; Schindler, David - 2016
One possible determinant of overpricing on asset markets is a lack of self-control abilities of traders. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired behavioral tendencies such as impulses and to refrain from acting on them. We implement the first experiment that is...
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A model of reference-dependent belief updating
Maier, Johannes K.; König, Clemens - 2016
We propose a model of instrumental belief choice under loss aversion. When new information arrives, an agent is prompted to abandon her prior. However, potential posteriors may induce her to take actions that generate a lower utility in some states than actions induced by her prior. These losses...
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Petroleum taxation and investment behaviour
Osmundsen, Petter; Emhjellen, Magne; Johnsen, Thore; … - 2014
Petroleum administration can be regarded as a principal-agent problem. The government allocates exploration and production rights to petroleum companies on behalf of the population. The government is the principal and the companies are agents. With the aim of capturing revenue for the state, the...
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Do professional norms in the banking industry favor risk-taking?
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Maréchal, Michel André - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624184
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Gold, oil, and stocks : dynamic correlations
Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015
We employ a wavelet approach and conduct a time-frequency analysis of dynamic correlations between pairs of key traded assets (gold, oil, and stocks) covering the period from 1987 to 2012. The analysis is performed on both intra-day and daily data. We show that heterogeneity in correlations...
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A multiple testing approach to the regularisation of large sample correlation matrices
Bailey, Natalia; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa - 2014
This paper proposes a novel regularisation method for the estimation of large covariance matrices, which makes use of insights from the multiple testing literature. The method tests the statistical significance of individual pair-wise correlations and sets to zero those elements that are not...
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