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Experience and Perception of Social Mobility – A Cross-Country Test of the Self-Serving Bias
Weber, Nina - 2020
paper, I propose and empirically test a behavioural model of social mobility perceptions based on the self-serving bias …, using the ISSP Social Inequality Cumulative. The self-serving bias states that people blame external circumstances for their … the self-serving bias, that personal experiences with social mobility only influence people's perceptions of societal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841727
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Are Expectations Misled by Chance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Financial Analysts
Meier, Pascal Flurin; Flepp, Raphael; Franck, Egon - 2023
We examine whether finance professionals deviate from Bayes’ theorem on the processing of nondiagnostic information when forecasting quarterly earnings. Using field data from sell-side financial analysts and employing a regression discontinuity design, we find that analysts whose forecasts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254030
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2020
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions. Our estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303266
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2019
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions. Our estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062116
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The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences : evidence from Germany
Gerling, Lena; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2019
desirability bias in self-reported party preferences. Consequently, the likelihood to reveal an AfD preference increases. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063656
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Saving and learning : theory and evidence from saving for child’s college
Zhu, Junyi - 2012
This paper analyzes the main uncertainty of college saving - the child’s ability - in the context of the saving with learning model. The first section develops a dynamic model combining asset accumulation and learning to explain the parents’ forward-looking saving behavior when they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625571
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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597131
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Decomposing the disposition effect
Maier, Johannes K.; Fischer, Dominik Simon - 2021
, it identifies the presence of some systematic bias. We further investigate the measure’s comparative statics regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648374
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in empirically estimated deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796058
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in empirically estimated deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816303