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The following paper is a theoretical introduction of the misinformation effect to behavioural finance. The misinformation effect causes a memory report regarding an event or particular knowledge to become contaminated with misleading information from another source. The paper aims to describe...
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Mit dem diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften wurden zwei Vertreter geehrt, die im Rahmen von zahllosen Serien von Individual- und Marktexperimenten Erkenntnisse der psychologischen Forschung in die Wirtschaftswissenschaften einbrachten. Welche Folgen hatte ihre Forschung für...
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Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...
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Mehr als die Hälfte der Erwachsenen in Deutschland ist übergewichtig. Besonders oft betroffen sind Ältere, Arme und Menschen mit geringer Bildung. Ein Thema für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler? Ernährung und fehlende Bewegung sind entscheidende Faktoren für wichtige Volkskrankheiten. Für durch...
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Psychological preparedness for entrepreneurial actions helps to connect macro-institutional support for entrepreneurs to actions of entrepreneurs. Action knowledge and personal initiative are part of entrepreneurial preparedness, and there are two training concepts that have been developed to...
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The paper explores utility measures by combining experiments with mathematical derivations in the psychophysics paradigm. The analysis on the ultimatum game experiment reveals evidences for the utility threshold and thus supports Bernoulli's utility logarithmic law. Both experimental results and...
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In order to revamp Rhetoric as a methodological approach in Economics, this paper combines natural selection in evolution and the psychology of confirmatory bias. This latter can be thought of as a second best adaptation to the forces of natural selection and can also be an evolutionary stable...
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Diese Studie thematisiert den Einfluss von Expertise, Prominenz, Attraktivität und Geschlecht auf die Wahrnehmung von Glaubwürdigkeit. Dabei wurden Probanden mittels Online-Fragebögen mehrere Kombinationen aus verschiedenen Bildern, Aussagen sowie Hintergrundinformationen zu den abgebildeten...
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Eastern Europe nowadays represents an important and attractive economic area for foreign direct investment. Determinants of investments have converged with those of other European countries. However, it has been argued that a differentiated East-West structure still exists in Europe. This study...
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