The study seeks to investigate the costs and benefits resulting from the application of IFRS in Greece. A questionnaire survey was conducted in order to identify the perceptions of the financial managers of Greek listed firms regarding the benefits and the costs associated with the transition to...

In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper suggests that utility also depends on people’s attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The results imply, first, that purely outcome-based models...

Psychologists have developed effective survey methods of measuring how happy people feel at a given time. The relationship between how happy a person feels and utility is an unresolved question. Existing work in Economics either ignores happiness data or assumes that felt happiness is more or...