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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis

Stein, Jerome L. - 2010

A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...

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Dictator games : a meta study

Engel, Christoph - 2010

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study explores a rich set of control variables for...

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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...

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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522305

The effects of financial incentives in experiments : a review and capital-labor-production framework

Camerer, Colin; Hogarth, Robin M. - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty : JRU 19 (1999) 1/3, pp. 7-42

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The causal link between financial incentives and weight loss : an evidence-based survey of the literature

Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R.; Reinermann, Holger - 2011

estimates of the effect. -- Financial incentives ; weight loss ; obesity ; randomized experiment ; survey … is through the use of financial incentives. In this survey, we review the available evidence with a significant emphasis … on studies that yield credible estimates of the effect of financial incentives on weight loss. We find that the …