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Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
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Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006185
another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and … consumers ; field experiment ; laboratory experiment …
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Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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experiment with 66 students to measure the house-money effect on their risk preferences. They received an amount of money with … group got it the day of the experiment. We find that, when facing possible losses, people in the treatment group showed a … behave according to expected-utility theory, the risk-attitude adjustment corresponds to an average increase of 1 in their …
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Fungibility of money is a central assumption in the theory of consumer choice: any unit of money is substitutable for … another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this …
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This paper investigates - in a large heterogeneous sample - the relationship between social preferences on the one hand, and socioeconomic factors and political preferences on the other hand. Socioeconomic factors correlate with social preferences, and social preferences robustly shape political...
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offer is made right before the train departure. -- Natural field experiment ; bargaining ; focal point ; equal split ; agent …
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Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We find that the expulsion of Jewish professionals had long …
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Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We find that the expulsion of Jewish professionals had long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664306