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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
hospitals in the rate of adoption between 2002-2006, and a strong reversal from 2006-2013. We find that perception bias explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480649
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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service: Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291318
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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294375
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Fairness spillovers: The case of taxation
Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; Koenig, Tobias - 2012
It is standardly assumed that individuals react to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323868
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Measuring changes in preferences and perception due to the entry of a new brand with choice data
Hildebrandt, Lutz; Kalweit, Lea - 2008
behavioral literature, several hypotheses about the effects of a new brand on perception, preferences and choice behavior can be … explanations. An empirical investigation reveals strong support for categorization effects and changes in perception, which affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263745
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Inflation Forecasting with Inflation Sentiment Indicators
Döhrn, Roland; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Zimmermann, Tobias - 2008
In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared by many components of the CPI basket. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264748
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Fairness spillovers: The case of taxation
Cornelissen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; König, Tobias - 2010
It is standardly assumed that individuals adjust to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275016
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Business accomplishments, gender and entrepreneurial self-image
Verheul, Ingrid; Uhlaner, Lorraine; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004
Drawing on Bem's psychological theory of self-perception, this paper presents and tests a model that examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276799