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All over the map : a worldwide comparison of risk preferences
L'Haridon, Olivier; Vieider, Ferdinand M. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 1, pp. 185-215
We obtain rich measurements of risk preferences for 2939 subjects across 30 countries, and use the data to paint a picture of the distribution of risk preferences across the globe using structural equation models. Reference‐dependence and likelihood‐dependence are found to be important...
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Common components of risk and uncertainty attitudes across contexts and domains : evidence from 30 countries
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Bouchouicha, … - 2013
Attitudes towards uncertainty have been indicated to be highly context-dependent, and to be sensitive to the measurement technique employed. We present data collected in controlled experiments with 2939 subjects in 30 countries measuring uncertainty attitudes through incentivized measures as...
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Prominent numbers, indices and ratios in exchange rate determination and financial crashes : in Economists' models, in the field and in the laboratory
Pope, Robin; Selten, Reinhard; Kube, Sebastian; Hagen, … - 2009
The prior paper in this sequel, Pope (2009) introduced the concept of a nominalist heuristic, defined as a focus on prominent numbers, indices or ratios. In this paper the concept is used to show three things in how scientists and practitioners analyse and evaluate to decide (conclude). First,...
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Gender Differences in Lying in Sender-Receiver Games : A Meta-Analysis
Capraro, Valerio - 2018
Whether there are gender di erences in lying has been largely debated in the past decade. Previous studies found mixed results. To shed light on this topic, here I report a meta-analysis of 8,728 distinct observations, collected in 65 Sender-Receiver game treatments, by 14 research groups....
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Human Capital Investment After the Storm
Billings, Stephen B. - 2020
We provide a novel test for the impact of wealth-destroying natural disasters on college decisions using Hurricane … financing. Instead, we find college-age adults from flooded areas are 2.5 percentage points (5.7%) less likely to have student …
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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018
Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...
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Ethical reasoning at work : a cross-country comparison of gender and age differences
Lasthuizen, Karin; Badar, Kamal - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 13 (2023) 5, pp. 1-16
This paper uses the IBE Ethics at Work 2018 survey to explore employees' ethical reasoning and examine gender and age … Millennials in the workplace has raised new questions about age/generational differences and ethics. The findings in this study … gender and age differences, both among employees and managers, are consistent across countries. This study shows that …
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Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
Furtner, Nadja C.; Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2016
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others' contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show...
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Information Gaps and Shadow Banking
Judge, Kathryn - 2017
This Article argues that information gaps—pockets of information that are pertinent and knowable but not currently known—are a byproduct of shadow banking and a meaningful source of systemic risk. It lays the foundation for this claim by juxtaposing the regulatory regime governing the shadow...
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Green Eggs and Ham : The CISG, Path Dependence, and the Behavioural Economics of Lawyers’ Choices of Law in International Sales Contracts
Spagnolo, Lisa - 2022
Why do lawyers in some jurisdictions continue to ‘automatically’ exclude the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in their choices of law for international sales contracts? Why do lawyers in other jurisdictions approach the decision very differently? Why...
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