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Household debt and crises of confidence
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2015
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence. The house price feeds back on itself by contributing to a liquidity effect, which operates through the value of housing in a collateral constraint. Over a specific range of debt...
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The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession : evidence from the Asian financial crisis
Choi, Eleanor Jawon; Choi, Jaewoo; Son, Hyelim - 2020
This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis in South Korea. We measure the overall welfare effect by examining their labor market activities, family...
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Interpreting time horizon effects in inter-temporal choice
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real incentives and two representative data sets. With the most commonly used type of design we replicate the typical finding of declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs...
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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Trusting former rebels : an experimental approach to understanding reintegration after civil war
Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - 2014
aware of the behavioral difference: they trust ex-soldiers more because they expect them to be more trustworthy. Last, we …
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Responding to (un)reasonable requests
Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2016
We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531913
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Culture of trust and division of labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015
- specifically the trust environment - and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …
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Groupthink : collective delusions in organizations and markets
Bénabou, Roland - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
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Who bears the welfare costs of monopoly?the case of the credit card industry
Herkenhoff, Kyle; Raveendranathan, Gajendran - 2019
How are the welfare costs from monopoly distributed across U.S. households? We answer this question for the U.S. credit card industry, which is highly concentrated, charges interest rates that are 3.4 to 8.8 percentage points above perfectly competitive pricing, and has repeatedly lost antitrust...
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How bad Is involuntary part-time work?
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016
We use a set of empirical and analytical tools to conduct parallel analyses of involuntary part-time work and unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the similar cyclical behavior of involuntary part-time work and unemployment masks major differences in...
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