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Sadder but wiser : the effects of affective states and weather on ambiguity attitudes
Baillon, Aurélien; Koellinger, Philipp; Treffers, Theresa - 2014
subjects ́affective states. We find that sadness induces choices that are closer to ambiguity-neutral attitudes compared with … conditions on the day of the survey - a proxy for sad affect - correlate with more ambiguity-neutral attitudes. Our results may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337020
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On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties
Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Stallen, Mirre; … - 2008
Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376614
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Competition and well-being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004
We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335225
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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007
How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world … will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an … important determinant of economic performance as they affect wealth accumulation and dependency burdens, yielding a demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372996
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Do early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions explain health at older ages?
Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - 2008
Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. The prevalence of functional limitations is found to increase in the nineteen-nineties, in part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376454
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Education and labor market activity of women : an age-group specific empirical analysis
Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
such benefits are partially offset by a negative aging effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379383
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Disentangling the age, period, and cohort effects using a modeling approach
Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - 2003 - Rev.
using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. We argue that the modeling approach is a highly appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327821
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Health expenditure growth : looking beyond the average through decomposition of the full distrubition
Meijer, Claudine de; Koopmanschap, Marcus A.; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722636
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On real interest rates, tariff policy, exchange rates and the ZLB
Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2018
address the impact of anticipated future productivity slow down, aging, structural reform and fiscal policy on real interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813425
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Emotions and economic shocks in a first-price auction
Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - 2003
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333886