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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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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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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017
(iii) how to minimize selection bias. …
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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms
Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017
Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...
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The hidden costs of choice in the labor market
Au, Pak Hung; Li, King King; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Rong - 2023
Freedom of choice is often thought to improve efficiency. We experimentally investigate the effect of giving workers a choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and work performance, compared to the alternative of...
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Private information, human capital, and optimal “home bias” in financial markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011
deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance … models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to endogenous information acquisition bolstered by investors' human capital. We … understanding the global financial crisis of 2007-09. -- private information ; human capital ; home bias ; financial markets ; risky …
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Home bias in top economics journals
Bethmann, Dirk; Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael; … - 2023
articles in their respective home journal. Such home ties and publication bias may harm, but also benefit, article quality. We …
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010
The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...
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Social responsibility in market interaction
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...
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