Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these … preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U …

for performance. ii) Present-biased preferences create self-control problems. We show how goals permit self …-regulation through goals only up to a certain point. For severely present-biased preferences, the required goal for self-regulation is …

primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. -- Trust ; preferences ; beliefs …

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …

criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and … locus of control), and a self-control scale from criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and …

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self … relationship between self-control and both risk and social preferences. To exogenously vary the level of self-control, we use a … self-control on social preferences is not significant. In sum, our findings support the proposition that low self …

depending on whether their preferences exhibit desert elation or desert guilt. Our notion of desert generalizes distributional …

An important advance in the study of reference-dependent preferences is the discipline provided by coherent accounts of …