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Taming overconfident CEOs through stricter financial regulation
Kassner, Bernhard - 2023
A large body of literature finds that managerial overconfidence increases risk-taking by financial institutions. This paper shows that financial regulation can be effective at mitigating this type of risk. Exploiting regulatory changes introduced after the financial crisis as a natural...
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Confidence and college applications : evidence from a randomized intervention
Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Schmacker, Renke; Terrier, Camille - 2023
This paper investigates the role self-confidence plays in college applications. Using incentivized experiments, we … measure the self-confidence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. This data reveals that the best female … miscalibrated confidence affects college choice on top of grades. We then estimate the impact of a randomized intervention that …
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Fairness and survival in ultimatum and dictatorship games
Schotter, Andrew; Weiss, Avi; Zapater, Iñigo - 1993
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Existence and fairness of value allocation without convex preferences
Yannelis, Nicholas C. - 1983
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An extension of fairness in Nash
Fabella, Raul V. - 1985
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An extension of fairness in Nash : A revision
Fabella, Raul V. - 1985
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Fairness and competition in a bilateral matching market
Bester, Helmut - 2021
This paper analyzes fairness and bargaining in a dynamic bilateral matching market. Traders from both sides of the market are pairwise matched to share the gains from trade. The bargaining outcome depends on the traders’ fairness attitudes. In equilibrium fairness matters because of market...
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Fairness and competition in a bilateral matching market
Bester, Helmut - 2021
This paper analyzes fairness and bargaining in a dynamic bilateral matching market. Traders from both sides of the market are pairwise matched to share the gains from trade. The bargaining outcome depends on the traders’ fairness attitudes. In equilibrium fairness matters because of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648091
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2020
To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...
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