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This questionnaire survey of fund managers in the United States, Germany and Switzerlanddocuments a distinctly positive influence of bonus payments on investment behavior on bothsides of the Atlantic. Higher bonus payments are significantly related to higher working effortbut not to risk taking....
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spreads are inversely related to a trade’s likely information content. Second,the paper suggests three potential sources for … the pattern of customer spreads, two of which rely onthe information structure of the market.[...] …
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This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the...
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outsourcingproviders in information technology - is described employing a two-dimensionaloperations research model and an interactive …
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levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
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. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …
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To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …
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extensive form games in which players decide on their strategies before the start of play and can purchase noisy information …
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We show that a common (identical across investors) irrationality in information processing can be enough to create …), make investment horizon age-independent, and keep all information complete. The common irrationality in our model takes the … form of a somewhat non-Bayesian information processing. The resulting trade between such essentially identical individuals …
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about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …
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