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Geburten in Ost- und Westdeutschland : erleichtert eine hohe Risikobereitschaft die Entscheidung für ein Kind?

Schmitt, Christian - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 11, pp. 18-23

- vor allem unter ostdeutschen Männern positiv auf die Entscheidung für eine Elternschaft wirkt. -- risk attitudes …

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Measuring the degree to which probability weighting affects risk-taking behavior in financial decisions

Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-39

risk-taking behavior deviates from expected utility theory in the presence of probability weighting. A group of … professional traders participates in an experiment, whose data are used to calculate risk and uncertainty premiums. This framework … allows measuring and disentangling the impact of probability weighting on risk perceptions and behavior. Several findings …

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Value relevance of financial statements information : evidence from listed firms in Kenya

Nyabundi, Melissa A. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 115-134

This study examined the relationship between share prices and dividends, earnings and book values for companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) in Kenya for the six years period between 2005 and 2010. Using panel data analysis the study found evidence that there is a positive and...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants’ risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes … social norms is an essential factor in the formation of individual attitudes. -- risk attitudes ; ethnic persistence …

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El estudio de casos como metodología de investigación científica en dirección y economía de la empresa : una aplicación a la internacionalización

Villarreal Larrinaga, O.; Landeta Rodríguez, J. - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 16 (2010) 3, pp. 31-52

Management, as a social science, and Strategic Management, as a specific scientific discipline of this science, require research methodologies that can deal with all of the complexities of the business phenomena to be analysed. Certain circumstances call for methodologies that can combine...

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Keiner kommt an Spanien vorbei : außer dem Zufall

Gerhards, Jürgen; Mutz, Michael; Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 24, pp. 14-20

Anlässlich der Fußballweltmeisterschaft 2006 hatte das DIW Berlin zusammen mit der Freien Universität Berlin erstmals den Transfer- Marktwert der Mannschaften als ein einfaches und transparentes Kriterium für die Prognose der Ergebnisse großer Fußball-Turniere vorgeschlagen. Und...

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Some considerations on the challenges to the economic science

Doroftei, Irina Mădălina - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 3 (2012) 1, pp. 20-27

The recent crisis of 2008 has revealed several challenges for the economic science, sparking a considerable amount of debate regarding the profession of economists and the role of macroeconomics and monetary policies. The first question that arose was why there was a lack of anticipation of the...

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Returns on investment of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria

Bosede, Adegboye Folasade; Olusegun, Olowe; … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 195-206

revealed that apart from credit risk, Lending, Deposit rates, and Investments are associated with large bank size as evident in …

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The status quo bias of bond market analysts

Gubaydullina, Zulia; Hein, Oliver; Spiwoks, Markus - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 31-51

Status quo bias is a systematic cognitive error which makes it difficult for individuals to make decisions independently of the currently dominant situation. This study pursues the question of whether bond market analysts are affected by status quo bias. We evaluated interest rate forecast...

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Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy

Babcock, Linda; Congdon, William J.; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-14

Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...

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