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Scarred consumption
Malmendier, Ulrike; Shen, Leslie Sheng - 2019
We show that prior lifetime experiences can "scar" consumers. Consumers who have lived through times of high unemployment exhibit persistent pessimism about their future financial situation and spend significantly less, controlling for the standard life-cycle consumption factors, even though...
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The effects of corporate social responsibility and online reputation on consumer decisions
Elsaid, Abdel Moneim M. K.; Knight, Michael B. - In: International journal of electronic marketing and … 1 (2006/07) 4, pp. 339-354
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Hindsight bias and trust in government : evidence from the United States
Herz, Holger; Kistler, Deborah; Zehnder, Christian; … - 2022
We empirically assess whether hindsight bias has consequences on how citizens evaluate their political actors. Using an …. Exogenous variation in the extent of hindsight bias, induced through random assignment to survey structures, allows us to show … that hindsight bias causally reduces trust in government. …
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Do people demand fact-checked news? : evidence from U.S. democrats
Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021
In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...
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Do people demand fact-checked news? : evidence from U.S. Democrats
Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021
In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for factchecking when the newsletter features stories from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663061
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How the U.S. Census Bureau e-commerce figures overestimate output and online sales
Betancourt, Roger R. - In: Economics letters 172 (2018), pp. 157-159
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Cost misperceptions and energy consumption : experimental evidence for present bias and biased price beliefs
Werthschulte, Madeline; Löschel, Andreas - 2019
that participants with present bias are predicted to consume on average 9% more electricity than participants with time …
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Impatience and credit behavior : evidence from a field experiment
Meier, Stephan (contributor); Sprenger, Charles (contributor) - 2007
This paper tests whether heterogeneity of time preferences can explain individual credit behavior. In a field experiment targeting individuals from low-to-moderate income households, we measure individual time preferences through choice experiments, and then match these time preference measures...
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Present-biased preferences and credit card borrowing
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - 2009
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to...
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Habits and envy : what drives the consumption behavior of U.S. households?
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2013
In dieser Analyse schätzen wir den Einfluss von Gewohnheits-(Habits) gegenüber Vergleichsmotiven (Envy) zur Erklärung des Konsumverhaltens US-amerikanischer Haushalte. Wir verwenden Daten der seit August 2013 erhältlichen Konsumerhebungen des Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) für den...
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