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Happiness and productivity
Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2009
productivity in a paid piece-rate Niederle-Vesterlund task. They alter output but not the per-piece quality of their work. To check …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269053
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Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe
Chai, Andreas - 2010
This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281847
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Feeling the heat : emotions, politicization, and the European Union
Gellwitzki, Nicolai; Houde, Anne-Marie - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 60 (2022) 5, pp. 1470-1487
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013392038
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European inflation expectations dynamics
Slacalek, Jirka; Fritsche, Ulrich; Dovern, Jonas; … - 2005
expectation models, households in the sticky information environment update their expectations sporadically rather than … experts? inflation expectations, we find that the model adequately captures the dynamics of household inflation expectations …
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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316909
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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282066
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Maternal gender role attitudes, human capital investment, and labour supply of sons and daughters
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - 2012
the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …
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Entrepreneurship: Cause or consequence of financial optimism?
Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David Emmanuel; Henley, Andrew - 2012
Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289870
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The effect of the financial crisis on older households in England
Banks, James; Crawford, Rowena; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2012
effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526546
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Back to gold : sterling in 1925
Gerlach, Stefan; Kugler, Peter - 2015
Expectations of Sterling returning to Gold have been disregarded in empirical work on the US dollar - Sterling exchange …
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