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Mobile money is an innovation that allows financial transactions to be performed via a cell phone. Even in poor regions of Africa, almost everyone has a cell phone; therefore, mobile money could both contribute to the continent’s economic growth and ensure that no Africans are excluded from...
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Mobile money is an innovation that allows financial transactions to be performed via a cell phone. Even in poor regions of Africa, almost everyone has a cell phone; therefore, mobile money could both contribute to the continent's economic growth and ensure that no Africans are excluded from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250686
Mit Hilfe von Mobile Money können Finanztransaktionen über ein Handy getätigt werden. Auch in armen Gegenden Afrikas besitzt fast jeder ein Mobiltelefon. Mobile Money könnte dafür sorgen, dass niemand mehr von Finanzdienstleistungen ausgeschlossen bleibt, und so zum wirtschaftlichen...
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Mit Hilfe von Mobile Money können Finanztransaktionen über ein Handy getätigt werden. Auch in armen Gegenden Afrikas besitzt fast jeder ein Mobiltelefon. Mobile Money könnte dafür sorgen, dass niemand mehr von Finanzdienstleistungen ausgeschlossen bleibt, und so zum wirtschaftlichen...
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This questionnaire survey of fund managers in the United States, Germany and Switzerlanddocuments a distinctly positive influence of bonus payments on investment behavior on bothsides of the Atlantic. Higher bonus payments are significantly related to higher working effortbut not to risk taking....
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There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competitionbehavior. However, as expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financialexperts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains of decision making? We analyzesurvey responses of...
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This research enters new ground by presenting comparative survey evidence on assetmanagers' views and behavior in the United States, Germany, Japan and Thailand.Relying on Hofstede's four cultural dimensions, we find that cultural differencesare most helpful in understanding country differences...
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Our questionnaire survey finds that most fund managers rely on the strategies ofbuy-&-hold, momentum and contrarian trading. These strategies are typically appliedmutually. Their use is rooted in the attributes and beliefs of the respective fund managers:buy-&-hold traders behave fundamentally...
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This paper analyzes the behaviour and motivation of fund managers in foreign exchangemarkets reflected in questionnaire evidence. We find that fund managers andFX dealers differ significantly. Fund managers rely more on fundamentals, basicallydue to their longer forecasting horizons, and reject...
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