,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …

, and believed men would use. Students' confidence as communicators affected their personal choice of strategy. Research …-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies …

), aggregation method (average versus weighted by money, a proxy for confidence), and incentive (not incentive compatible versus … respondents to state their confidence, using my method, which induces the respondents to reveal confidence, there is a sizable and … statically significant positive relationship between confidence and the accuracy of individual-level expectations. This positive …

), and outcome confidence (Zakay and Tsal 1993), since perceived ambiguity regardingthe effectiveness of the novel health …

management confidence. In a unique sample of US firms that have existed for over 25 years we find management confidence, as … management confidence is higher firms have higher levels of debt. This result is robust to different definitions of leverage and … confidence as well as different model specifications. This confirms the theoretical arguments in behavioural finance that …

trading patterns are strictly decreasing in agents' confidence in private signals. Interestingly, social communication can ….Chapter 3 develops a multi-period market model to examine the evolution of risk averse agents' confidence degrees in learning …