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House price forecasts in times of crisis: Do forecasters herd?

Pierdzioch, Christian; Rülke, Jan Christoph; … - 2012

We used Wall Street Journal survey data for the period 2006 - 2010 to analyze whether forecasts of house prices and housing starts provide evidence of (anti-)herding of forecasters. Forecasts are consistent with herding (anti-herding) of forecasters if forecasts are biased towards (away from)...

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Cash in hand and savings decisions

Spantig, Lisa - 2019

study how cash in hand influences decisions in a different but very important domain: savings. Savings accounts are a … promising tool for reducing poverty, but the use of savings accounts is often puzzlingly low. Holding on to cash that needs to … be physically deposited into a savings account may increase the psychological costs of saving. This study experimentally …

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Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality

Perugini, Marco; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2005

Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first...

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Business accomplishments, gender and entrepreneurial self-image

Verheul, Ingrid; Uhlaner, Lorraine; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004

Drawing on Bem's psychological theory of self-perception, this paper presents and tests a model that examines the impact of business accomplishments and gender on entrepreneurial self-image and explores the definition of entrepreneurship according to Vesper's entrepreneu-rial typology....

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Business dynamics and employment growth: a cross-country analysis

van Stel, André J.; Diephuis, Bart - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...

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