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Biased probability judgment : evidence of incidence and relationship to economic outcomes from a representative sample

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Marklein, Felix - 2009

Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...

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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment

Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014

We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441688

The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481849

Truth-telling : a representative assessment

Abeler, Johannes; Becker, Anke; Falk, Armin - 2012

A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...

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Choosing the Joneses : endogenous goals and reference standards

Falk, Armin (contributor); Knell, Markus (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Charitable giving as a gift exchange : evidence from a field experiment

Falk, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which input?

Südekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian - 2012

inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm … this paper we introduce economies of scope into a property rights model where a producer contracts with two suppliers. The … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …

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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments

Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor); … - 2008

Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage elimination tournaments. The main treatment of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament...

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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...

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