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present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and …
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. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being more likely to employ undocumented workers if competitors do. Rivals … marginal revenue product. The herding behavior and competitive effects are found to be much weaker in geographically broad …
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theory, and rational herding. We use the resulting data to estimate a multiple mediation model, in which the effect of the … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing … related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing theory, and …
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We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
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We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
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Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
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reassignments of certain student groups into new peer groups, we also explore the reasons why herding occurs. The preponderance of … evidence suggests that social learning, as opposed to network externalities, is the key driver for herding behavior. …
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We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model and analyze two sets of naturally occurring data from crowd-funding platforms. After developing the...
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are …, and large-scale surveys. The data show systematic links between traditional herding practices and a culture of honor …. First, the culture of pre-industrial societies that relied on animal herding emphasizes violence, punishment, and revenge …
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