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Drop-Off/Pick-Up as a Method of Maximising Response Rates in Self Administered Surveys
Rojas Méndez, José; Davies, Gary - Manchester Business School - 2001
achieve research goals. Hence reviewers and editors should not reject a manuscript on the basis of potential non-response bias …
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Biases in decomposing holding period portfolio returns
Liu, Weimin; Strong, Norman - Manchester Business School - 2006
A growing number of studies in finance decompose multi-period buy-and-hold portfolioreturns into a series of single period returns. The method used to decomposethese returns is important because researchers use them in tests of asset pricing modelsand market efficiency and in evaluating the...
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THE SUPERIORITY OF BIASED REVIEWERS IN A MODEL OFSIMULTANEOUS SALES
Gill, David; Sgroi, Daniel - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004
simultaneously after consideration by a reviewer with a known level of bias. Consumers observe the reviewer`s decision and a private …
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Repayment Frequency in Micro nance Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers
Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
based on present bias. For such individuals, more frequentrepayment can increase the maximum incentive compatible loan size …
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Behavioral biases and cognitive reflection
Hoppe, Eva I.; Kusterer, David J. - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2008
In a large-scale laboratory experiment, we investigate whether subjects’ scores on the cognitivereflection test (CRT) are related to their susceptibility to the base rate fallacy, the conservatismbias, overconfidence, and the endowment eect.
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Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations:An Empirical Investigation
Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Universität <Bonn> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher … - 2010
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A keyhypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties betweensupervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from acall center organization...
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Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases
Oechssler, Jörg; Roider, Andreas; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities...
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Autocorrelation, Bias, and Fat Tails - Are Hedge Funds Really Attractive Investments?
Eling, Martin - Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft <Sankt Gallen> - 2005
correlation with stocks and bond markets. Whenevaluating using the Markowitz portfolio selection theory, hedge funds appear … tooffer a remarkable opportunity. Yet use of the Markowitz theory neglects three importantqualities of hedge funds: the … existence of significant autocorrelation, bias,and fat tails. Each of these three issues has been studied individually, but no …
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The Demand for Liquid Assets, Corporate Saving, and Global Imbalances
Bacchetta, Philippe; Benhima, Kenza - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2010
In the recent decade, capital outows from emerging economies, in the form of a demandfor liquid assets, have played a key role in the context of global imbalances. In this paper,we model the demand for liquid assets by rms in a dynamic open-economy macroeconomicmodel. We nd that the implications...
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A Reappraisal of the Allocation Puzzle through thePortfolio Approach
Benhima, Kenza - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2010
Paradoxically, high-investment and high-growth developing countries tend toexperience capital outows. This paper shows that this allocation puzzle can beexplained simply by introducing uninsurable idiosyncratic investment risk in theneoclassical growth model. Using a sample of 67 countries...
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