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Optimistic, but not in control : life-orientation and the theory of mixed control
Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - 2009
external factors, such as powerful others or chance. Furthermore, some authors suggest that internal control beliefs interact … with self-efficacy beliefs regarding their effects on outcome expectancies and thus optimism. We argue that it is not only … self-efficacy that interacts, but efficacy beliefs about external factors, too. We further hypothesize that the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809924
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Financial advisors : a case of babysitters?
Hackethal, Andreas; Chaliasos, Michaēl; Jappelli, Tullio - 2009
We merge administrative information from a large German discount brokerage firm with regional data to examine if financial advisors improve portfolio performance. Our data track accounts of 32,751 randomly selected individual customers over 66 months and allow direct comparison of performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864097
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Herding with and without payoff externalities : an internet experiment
Drehman, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2005
Most real world situations that are susceptible to herding are also characterized by direct payoff externalities. Yet, the bulk of the theoretical and experimental literature on herding has focused on pure informational externalities. In this paper we experi- mentally investigate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003380747
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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765617
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Herding and contrarian behavior in financial markets : an internet experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2004 - Revised version: June 2004, First version: November 2002
Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: We report results of an internet experiment designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets (Avery and Zemsky, AER, 1998). More than 6400 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361992
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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
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Cognitive and institutional perspectives of eco effiency : a new research landscape towards factor four (or more)
Bleischwitz, Raimund - 2002
The paper sketches out a theoretical framework for analysing the interplay between eco-efficiency, cognition and institutions. It derives from analytical shortfalls of the prevailing literature, which features strongly engineering and business economics, by using insights from New Institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493769
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Will women be women? : analyzing the gender difference among financial experts
Beckmann, Daniela (contributor); Menkhoff, Lukas (contributor) - 2008
There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains of decision making? We analyze survey responses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003663198
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Herding with and without payoff externalities - an internet experiment
Drehmann, Mathias (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Most real world situations that are susceptible to herding are also characterized by direct payoff externalities. Yet, the bulk of the theoretical and experimental literature on herding has focused on pure informational externalities. In this paper we experi- mentally investigate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002235094
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Tax Secrecy and Tax Transparency – The Relevance of Confidentiality in Tax Law Country Report : Canada
Christians, Allison - 2013
Canadian National Report prepared for the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Conference on tax secrecy and transparency, Rust, Austria, July, 2012. The aim of the project is to assess how different countries regard the treatment of tax information and tax secrecy. Topics include the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090158