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Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export : A Real Option Approach
Naudé, Wim - 2013
In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose an alternative way to model whether firms export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083086
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016270
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The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions
Stark, Oded - 2019
We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more aggressive (that is, riskier) manner. Assuming that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864857
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Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior
Stark, Oded - 2019
Assuming that an individual's rank in the wealth distribution is the only factor determining the individual's wellbeing, we analyze the individual's risk preferences in relation to gaining or losing rank, rather than the individual's risk preferences towards gaining or losing absolute wealth. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861313
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Trust and Trustworthiness Under the Prospect Theory : A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099719
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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012
We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099808
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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013
abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081828
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Framing Effects and Impatience : Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
van der Heijden, Eline - 2013
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in the frequency at which individuals decide about the invested amount. The low frequency treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089008
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas - 2020
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843721
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True Overconfidence, Revealed Through Actions : An Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2017
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962309