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Chapter 27 : Trading and Investment Strategies in Behavioral Finance
Longo, John - 2014
The chapter describes investment and trading strategies rooted in behavioral finance that historically have generated … behavioral biases and their investment performance reflects this unfortunate fact. However, hope exists for those seeking to … improve investment performance. Investment analysts will become akin to doctors analyzing the vast complexity of the human …
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Wirtschaftsethische Überlegungen zum Klimawandel
Dilger, Alexander - 2020
Naturwissenschaftliche Fragen rund um den Klimawandel sind von Naturwissenschaftlern zu beantworten. Ökonomen und Wirtschaftsethiker können jedoch dazu beitragen, den Klimawandel und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen zu bewerten. Dabei ist ein einheitlicher Preis für die Emission von Treibhausgasen...
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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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Motivation Crowding Theory : A Survey of Empirical Evidence
Frey, Bruno S.; Jegen, Reto - 2021
The motivation crowding effect suggests that an external intervention via monetary incentives or punishments may undermine (and under different indentifiable conditions strengthen) intrinsic motivation. As of today, the theoretical possibility of crowding effects is widely accepted among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321359
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Does the nominal exchange rate regime matter for investment?
Böhm, Hjalmar; Funke, Michael - 2001
This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate uncertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate … exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400788
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Effort and redistribution : better cousins than one might have thought
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012
We use survey and experimental data to explore how effort choices and preferences for redis-tribution are linked. Under standard preferences, redistribution would reduce effort. This is different with social preferences. Using data from the World Value Survey, we find that respondents with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535064
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The tradeoff between redistribution and effort : evidence from the field and from the lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012
Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535110
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The tradeoff between redistribution and effort : evidence from the field and from the lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012
Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751314
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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457340
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Trust among the avatars : a virtual world experiment, with and without textual and visual cues
Atlas, Stephen; Putterman, Louis G. - 2010
We invited "residents" of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes comparable to "in world" wages. In different treatments, the lab wall was adorned with an emotively suggestive photograph, a suggestive text was added to the instructions, or both...
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