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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744695
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Nudges at the Dentist
Altmann, Steffen; Traxler, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who … are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on … the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders. Within one month after receiving a reminder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128026
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Nudges at the dentist
Altmann, Steffen; Traxler, Christian - 2012
We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who … are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on … the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders. Within one month after receiving a reminder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283959
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Aging and attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: An artefactual field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287655
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Efficient probit estimation with partially missing covariates
Conniffe, Denis; O'Neill, Donal - 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269313
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269296
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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2010
the desire to send positive signals to others about one's own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269888
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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268681
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Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004
In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of home ownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models provide ambiguous results in this issue. Secondly, there is limited previous empirical evidence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261778
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On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership : Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004
Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of income volatility and credit constraints have been one of the main focuses in this concern. In this paper we test for the first time whether the underlying nature behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261962