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Weather and the Psychology of Purchasing Outdoor-Movie Tickets

Buchheim, Lukas - 2016

advance tickets for an outdoor movie theater, a real-world situation that, due to the availability of reliable weather … the weather at the time of purchase, even though the latter is irrelevant for the experience of visiting the theater in …

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Weather and the psychology of purchasing outdoor-movie tickets

Buchheim, Lukas; Kolaska, Thomas - 2016

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Sports Sentiment and Tipping Behavior

Ge, Qi - 2017

This paper utilizes a high frequency dataset on taxi rides in New York City to investigate how emotions due to sporting event outcomes affect passengers' tipping behavior. I formulate and empirically test a reference-dependent preferences framework of tipping behavior. The results indicate that...

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Sadder but wiser : the effects of affective states and weather on ambiguity attitudes

Baillon, Aurélien; Koellinger, Philipp; Treffers, Theresa - 2014

susceptible to likelihood insensitivity. We also find a similar pattern in a representative population sample where cloudy weather … help explain re al-world phenomena such as financial markets that react to regular fluctuations in weather conditions. …

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Reversing the question : does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?

Guven, Cahit - 2009

I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest that happier people save more, spend less, and...

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Is it good to be bad or bad to be good? : assessing the aggregate impact of abnormal weather on consumer spending

Sandqvist, Anna Pauliina; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2018

Although the in uence of exceptional weather on individual behaviour has already been acknowledged in finance …, psychology, and marketing, the literature examining weather effects at more aggregate level is still limited. Further, there is a … lot of anecdotal evidence that weather anomalies affect consumer spending and retail business. The main aim of this …

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Heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and uncertainty

Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2021

We provide evidence for heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and game outcome uncertainty (GOU) in Major League Baseball. Using attendance data from 2013 to 2019, we explore functional data clustering techniques to detect common patterns in predictive margins of team-specific...