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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467161
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Price Discrimination and Mortgage Choice
Coen, Jamie; Kashyap, Anil K.; Rostom, May - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We characterize the large number of mortgage offers for which people qualify in the United Kingdom. Very few pick the cheapest option, nonetheless the one selected is not usually noticeably more expensive. A few borrowers make very expensive choices. These are most common when the menu they face...
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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372412
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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe
Gropp, Reint - 2009
taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463912
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To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments
Wang, Jialan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Digital technologies and fintech firms have rapidly reshaped the consumer financial landscape in recent years, and have the potential to help consumers make better decisions and improve their financial health. Existing technologies such as autopay are also experiencing increased takeup, a trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528372
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Is Investor Rationality Time Varying? Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry
Glode, Vincent - 2009
We provide new empirical evidence suggesting that the marginal investor in mutual funds behaves differently across market conditions. If the marginal investor allocates capital across mutual funds rationally, then the relative performance of funds should be unpredictable. We find however that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463611
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Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2017
Traditional banking is built on four pillars: SME lending, access to public liquidity, deposit insurance, and prudential supervision. This vision has been shattered by repeated bailouts of shadow financial institutions. This paper puts ``special depositors and borrowers'' at the core of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453784
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Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking : Evidence from Retail Forex Trading
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2016
We document evidence consistent with retail day traders in the Forex market attributing random success to their own skill and, as a consequence, increasing risk taking. Although past performance does not predict future success for these traders, traders increase trade sizes, trade size...
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Retail Financial Advice : Does One Size Fit All?
Foerster, Stephen - 2014
Using unique data on Canadian households, we assess the impact of financial advisors on their clients' portfolios. We find that advisors induce their clients to take more risk, thereby raising expected returns. On the other hand, we find limited evidence of customization: advisors direct clients...
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Banks in Space
Oberfield, Ezra; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period, large banks expanded rapidly, mostly by adding new branches in new locations, while many small banks exited. We document that large banks sorted into the densest markets, but...
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