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Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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There is a large literature evaluating the dual process model of cognition, including the biases and heuristic it implies. To advance this literature, we focus on what triggers decision makers to switch from the intuitive process (aka System 1) to the more deliberative process (aka System 2)....
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This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...
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, convexity for losses, and loss aversion apply to the dependence of life satisfaction on relative income. This is tested with a … implies a rising marginal sensitivity of life satisfaction to more negative values of relative income, and hence loss aversion … satisfaction ; relative income ; value function ; loss aversion ; social participation …
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. -- Reference points ; expectations ; loss aversion ; risk aversion ; disappointment ; experiment …
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Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in … riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an … manufacturer). All subjects also participate in a simple lottery choice task which arguably measures loss aversion in risky choices …
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We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …
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Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts … systematic individual difference, with some individuals more or less loss aversion, (3) it could be a property of the attribute … large sample of auto buyers using an experiment which allows us to measure loss aversion, at the individual level for …
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to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our results indicate that introducing a …. Most notably, we find that the propensity to discriminate is significantly lower when this penalty is loss-framed rather …
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a time-dependent causal effect of the loss of the co-twin on the mortality rate of the surviving twin. We develop a … Danish Twin Registry. Among men, the loss of an identical co-twin at age 75 causally reduces the remaining lifetime on … average by more than a year. This bereavement effect is less severe among non-identical twins or if the loss occurs at a …
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