University of Minnesota. Ph.D. dissertation. August 2008. Major: Economics. Advisor: Werner, Jan. 1 computer file (PDF … 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 …

experimental economics may serve as an important link. Its aim is to integrate the insights of cognitive and social psychologists … contributes to a better understanding of human decision-making. …

Laborexperiment sollten die Teilnehmer eine Entscheidung über die genaue Höhe einer Investition treffen. In verschiedenen Treatments … reale Arbeit-Freizeit-Entscheidung treffen.Als zentrales Ergebnis beider Laborexperimente lässt sich Folgendes … zusammenfassen: Neben dem Arbeitsleid und dem Einkommen scheint die Steuerwahrnehmung einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Arbeit-Freizeit-Entscheidung …

), 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 …

A primary focus of empirical earnings research is whether accounting earnings contain meaningful and timely information … that can be used by market participants to value securities. Empirically, accounting earnings numbers are considered to be …

highly critical of accounting methods at Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise that plays a leading role in the … secondary mortgage market. OFHEO charged Fannie Mae with not following generally accepted accounting practices in two critical … areas: (1) amortization of discounts, premiums, and fees involved in the purchase of home mortgages and (2) accounting for …

creative, but legitimate, accounting techniques to enhance their reported profits. This article identifies the principal … techniques used and assesses, in the context of the efficient markets hypothesis, whether manipulation of accounting information …