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Stress and coping : an economic approach

Wälde, Klaus - 2015

frequency of uncontrolled coping - emotional outbursts - as a function of an individualś personality and environment. Outbursts …

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TV and entrepreneurship

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

Can TV influence the entrepreneurial decisions of individuals? To identify causal effects, we utilize a quasi-natural experiment, namely that during the division of Germany after WWI into the capitalistic West Germany and the socialistic East Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in...

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TV and entrepreneurship

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021

This paper analyzes empirically whether individuals' decisions to start an own business can be influenced via television (TV). To identify its effect, we utilize exogenous regional variation in the availability of TV that conveyed images conducive to entrepreneurship and the notion that...

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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...

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Impatience, anticipatory feelings and uncertainty : a dynamic experiment on time preferences

Casari, Marco; Dragone, Davide - 2010

We study time preferences in a real-effort experiment with a one-month horizon. We report that two thirds of choices … suggest negative time preferences. Moreover, choice reversal over time is common even if temptation plays no role. We propose … important role for anticipatory feelings and uncertainty in intertemporal behavior. -- negative time preferences ; choice …

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Crowdfunding a monthly income : an analysis of the membership platform Patreon

Regner, Tobias - 2019

Membership platforms allow creators to crowdfund a monthly income, while campaigns on conventional reward crowdfunding portals aim to reach a specified funding target within a pre-set period. We study transaction-level data from Patreon, the biggest membership platform, to gain insights about...

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Generosity, greed and gambling : what difference does asymmetric information in bargaining make?

Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - 2009

We analyze the effects of asymmetric information concerning the size of a pie on proposer behavior in three different bargaining situations: the ultimatum game, the Yes-No-game and the dictator game. Our data show that (a) irrespective of the information condition, proposer generosity increases...

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On the independence of observations between experiments

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2009

attention when running future experiments. -- experimental methods ; independence of observations ; social preferences …

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Overweighting private information : three measures, one bias?

Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2010

Overweighting private information is often used to explain various detrimental decisions. In behavioral economics and finance, it is usually modeled as a direct consequence of misperceiving signal reliability. This bias is typically dubbed overconfidence and linked to the judgment literature in...

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Do self-committers mind commitment by others? : an experiment on weak paternalism

Uhl, Matthias - 2010

Weak paternalism commits protégés to their own plans. This experiment addresses the question of whether protégés judge weakly paternalistic acts primarily by means of their consequences or on principle grounds. Subjects receive a reward for showing up to the laboratory early the next morning...

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