Das Vertrauen in die Wirtschaftsprüfungsbranche wurde durch Unternehmenskrisen erschüttert. Marina Müller entwickelt deshalb unter Bezugnahme auf Theorien der Ökonomie, der Psychologie und der Soziologie einen konzeptionellen Bezugsrahmen zur Beeinflussung der Vertrauensvergabe. Nach der...

Literature review and research gaps -- Empirical investigations: expectations as reference points, personality traits and their influence on reference point formation, managerial reference point formation -- Summary and discussion -- Outlook

An exploration of Friedrich Hayek's contribution to the foundation of behavioural economics, and how his work interacted with and complemented that of his contemporaries. Chapters include detailed discussions of the concept of rationality, psychology and Hayek's philosophical theories as well as...

This book sets the agenda to turn behavioral economics, which has long been considered a subordinate discipline, into mainstream economics. Ghisellini and Chang expose the conceptual and empirical inadequacy of conventional economics using illustrations of real world decision-making in a dynamic...

This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioral economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioral economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss...

This book takes readers on a journey through the wide universe of bioethics, raising the following question: what is the proper attitude towards health, life, and death from the perspective of contemporary behavioral economics? Drawing on fields as diverse as economics, ethics, ecology, biology,...

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to children as well as to the general public. The...