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High wage workers match with high wage firms : clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012
. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that … the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and … ; limited mobility bias …
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Flexible workplace practices and labor productivity
Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Does the dream of home ownership rest upon biased beliefs? : a test based on predicted and realized life satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction...
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A survey of hedge and safe havens assets against G-7 stock markets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ozdemir, Huseyin; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2021
We propose a new Sharpe ratio index obtained from return and volatility spillover indices to individual assets from the whole financial system. We use our new approach to shed light on a new perspective on a hot topic examining the safe-haven assets after Covid-19. To do that, we compare both...
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Locus of control and investment in risky assets
Salamanca, Nicolás; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...
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Exponential growth bias and financial literacy
Almenberg, Johan; Gerdes, Christer - 2011
growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard … bias and household finance without adequate controls for financial literacy may generate biased results. -- exponential … growth bias ; financial literacy ; household finance …
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The coming wave : where do emerging market investors put their money?
Karolyi, G. Andrew; Ng, David Tat-chee; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2015
We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...
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Predicting retirement savings using survey measures of exponential-growth bias and present bias
Goda, Gopi Shah; Levy, Matthew; Flaherty Manchester, … - 2018
-growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the tendency to neglect compounding, and PB, the tendency to value the …
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Does reminding of behavioural biases increase returns from financial trading? : a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Piluso, Fabio - 2017
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether nudge policies, consisting in behavioural insight messaging, help to improve performance in financial trading. Our experiment involved students enrolled in a financial trading course in an Italian University who were invited to trade on Borsa...
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Persistent overconfidence and biased memory : evidence from managers
Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023
A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...
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