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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838560
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256417
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Will Islamic Banking make the World less risky? An Empirical Analysis of Capital Structure, Risk Shifting and Financial Stability
Farooq, Moazzam; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Zaheer, Sajjad - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We use a classic Merton credit risk framework to argue that Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) face less incentive to take on risks than Conventional Banking Institutions (CBI). IBIs have less incentive for risk shifting both in and outside of distress situations. We test and confirm this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272595
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Will Islamic Banking make the World less risky? An Empirical Analysis of Capital Structure, Risk Shifting and Financial Stability
Farooq, Moazzam; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Zaheer, Sajjad - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We use a classic Merton credit risk framework to argue that Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) face less incentive to take on risks than Conventional Banking Institutions (CBI). IBIs have less incentive for risk shifting both in and outside of distress situations. We test and confirm this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275100
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The Bicausal Relation between Religion and Income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144570
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Religion and Income
Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136987
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Religion and Income
Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
See also the article 'Religion and income: heterogeneity between countries' in the <I>Journal of Economic Behavior and … respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256294
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The Bicausal Relation between Religion and Income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257256
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Self-Confidence and Strategic Deterrence
Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We examine factors that may contribute to 'overconfidence' in relative ability on an intelligence test. We test experimentally for evidence of self-esteem concerns and instrumental strategic concerns. Errors in Bayesian updating are rare when the information does not involve own relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255502
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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study
Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
The power to take game is a simple two player game where players arerandomly divided into pairs consisting of a take authority and responder.Both players in each pair have earned an own income in an individual realeffort decision-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255559