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respondents' opinion about the tax deductibility of mortgages to their estimates about other people's opinion. The experiment …We present the results of a survey-experiment using a representative sample of the Dutch population in which we relate … opinions are strongly related to their own opinion. The size of the effect, however, is not affected by ambiguity of the …
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As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
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This study examines whether heterogeneous beliefs contribute to the incidence of the disposition effect. We measure optimism using elicited beliefs from incentivized experiments and surveys and link these measures to investment decisions using administrative register data. We find that...
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We study risk taking in a panel of subjects in Wuhan, China - before, during the COVID-19 crisis, and after the country reopened. Subjects in our sample traveled for semester break in January, generating variation in exposure to the virus and quarantine in Wuhan. Higher exposure leads subjects...
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