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Priceless? The Competitive Costs of Credit Card Merchant Restraints

Levitin, Adam J. - 2007

Credit card transactions cost American merchants six times as much as cash transactions. Why, then, do consumers pay the same price for purchases, regardless of the means of payment?The answer lies in a set of credit card network rules known as merchant restraints. Merchant restraints forbid...

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Essays in Property Taxation and Multinational Tax Avoidance

Bradley, Sebastien J. - 2011

This dissertation exploits variation in tax policies in order to better understand the incentive effects of taxation on individual and firm behavior. The results presented herein are intended to inform policy debates in the two areas examined--property and multinational taxation--as well as the...

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Does Past Volatility Affect Investors' Price Forecasts and Confidence Judgements?

Du, Ning; Budescu, David V - 2007

This study investigates the influence of past volatility on individual investors' forecasting behavior. We conducted two experiments in which we used real stock prices to construct low- and high-volatility time series, and asked participants to make both point estimates and interval forecasts of...

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Intraday volume and volatility relations with and without public news

Darrat, A.; Zhong, M.; Cheng, L. - 2007

-causes volatility without feedback. These results are broadly consistent with behavioral models like the overconfidence and biased self …

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Einfluss von Overconfidence und Optimismus von Finanzvorständen auf ihre Kapitalstrukturentscheidungen

Kasch, Michael Georg - 2008

Persönlichkeitsmerkmale Overconfidence und Optimismus von Führungskräften auf ihre Kapitalstrukturentscheidungen wird empirisch untersucht …). Demnach wählen Manager mit Overconfidence und Optimismus höhere Fremdkapitalquoten und kürzere Fristigkeiten. Sie beschränken … bestätigen den Einfluss von Overconfidence von Finanzvorständen auf ihre Kapitalstrukturentscheidungen. Die Overconfidence des …

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Three Essays on Crop Insurance: RMA's Rules and Participation, and Perceptions

Umarov, Alisher - 2009

as miscalibration and better-than-average (BTA) effect in farmers’perceptions, and related these biases to the …

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Experimental Studies of Overconfidence in Financial Markets

Julija Michailova - 2010

This doctoral thesis investigates the influence of overconfidence on the outcomes in experimental asset markets, both … that is later used in economic experiments to measure subjects’ overconfidence. The second part investigates the role of … market overconfidence in the occurrence of bubbles in asset prices and the emergence of other stylized facts of financial …

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