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In a time of global economic uncertainty, maintaining a financial environment where consumers are protected from risk and continue to have opportunities to create wealth should be critical for governments, business and administrators. A financially capable population could therefore be the key...
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This thesis provides new evidence concerning the way financial intermediaries fulfill the role of distributing capital efficiently to micro and small enterprise and diversify intertemporal risk at different stages of development. Chapter 2 and 3 present results about intertemporal risk sharing...
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This paper studies how a seller should design its price schedule when consumers' preferences are subject to temptation. As in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001),consumers exercise costly self-control to some degree and foresee their impulsivebehavior and self-control. Since consumers may pay a premium...
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Planning has pronounced effects on consumer behavior and intertemporal choice. We develop a six-item scale measuring individual differences in propensity to plan that can be adapted to different domains and used to compare planning across domains and time horizons. Adaptations tailored to...
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In the article - "Understanding the theoretical and practical aspects of self-management" - this phenomenon is discussed in terms of its role in the self-improvement of a person. The article lists the limiting factors of self-management and ways to overcome them, sequentially names the functions...
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the numerical ability (numeracy) of consumers affected perceptions of intelligence forecasts. Consumers perceived … necessarily evaluable by consumers and that perceptions of likelihood are affected by supporting narrative information. Numeracy … also moderated the effects of stated likelihood and the narrative evidence summary. Consumers higher in numeracy were more …
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possible. With respect to literacy, numeracy has been understudied in economic history and its inclusion in long-run growth …, followed by an analysis of national numeracy levels introducing a large and newly constructed data set on age heaping … Entwicklung von „Numeracy“ (Zahlenfähigkeit) zu messen. Die verschiedenen Arbeitspapiere, die dieser Arbeit zugrunde liegen …
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Africa, it is also characterised by limited and selective response patterns on its schoolquality and numeracy measures. To … component of the observed racialdifferentials in South African labour market earnings. Neither numeracy nor school …
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The use of financial planning and control systems is one of the factors that influence the survival of small businesses. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of financial planning and control systems contributes to the survival of manufacturing MSEs in the Tshwane...
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Artículo de revista ; Advances in new technologies give millions of people who experience financial exclusion globally the opportunity to access and use financial services. This article describes the main benefits of financial innovation, particularly in emerging economies. It also identifies...
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