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The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate tocharitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last resultgenerally derives from the focus on mean amount given...
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This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making.We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency becauseconsistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then presentthree experiments that study...
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Investitionsneutrale Steuersysteme haben keinen Einfluss auf unternehmerische Investitionsentscheidungen. Diese Eigenschaft besitzen die Besteuerung des ökonomischen Gewinns, die Cashflow–Steuer und die zinsbereinigte Steuer. Von diesen drei Systemen weist die zinsbereinigte Steuer die...
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This paper shows that Economic Value Added (EVA) can be used to optimize theperformance of european share investements. Investing in the top third relative EVAperformers, leads to a significant outperformance. This is true for market and sektorinvestments. The best results were found for growth...
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This paper investigates the returns and flows of German money marketfunds before and during the liquidity crisis of 2007/2008. The mainfindings of this paper are: In liquid times money market funds enhancedtheir returns by investing in less liquid papers. By doing so they outperformedother funds...
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We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures ofmyopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment … behaviour under risk. We find thatboth, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally tothe effects of … MLA. Longer investment horizons and less frequent feedbacklead to higher investments. However, when given the choice …
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The paper explores the applicability of the satisficing approach. Inparticular, we investigate whether basic principles of aspiration formationand satisficing behavior are transferable between similar situations.Individuals are sequentially confronted with two risky investmenttasks, a simple and...
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investment. Also, offering adefault portfolio strongly determines final allocations. …
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An empirically well-established finding is that equity portfolios are concentratedin the domestic equity market of the investor. Previous theoreticaland empirical analyses have mainly focused on institutional explanations andlargely neglected individual behavior. In this study we report the...
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This paper focuses on egocentric biases in financial decisions. Subjects first designa portfolio, whereby each combination of assets yields the same expected returnand variance of returns. They are then confronted with two alternative portfolios;the average portfolio and the portfolio of one’s...
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