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Financial education and consumers’ willingness to change behavior
Chatterjee, Swarn; Green-Pimentel, Leslie; Turner, Pamela - In: Investment Management and Financial Innovations 7 (2010) 3, pp. 73-81
This paper uses proprietary data comprising of 4,155 participants who attended financial education seminars conducted by a major U.S. consumer credit counseling agency in 2007. In this study, knowledge gained from attending the seminars is estimated using a multivariate regression model. Results...
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Centralization versus Delegation in an Experimental Capital Budgeting Setting
Arnold, Markus C.; Gillenkirch, Robert M. - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 10-30
In an experiment, we model two stylized facts about capital budgeting practice, budgetary slack creation and delegation …
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The EU's migration and development policy: New approaches in economics for more effective public aid
Mueller-Using, Susanne; Vöpel, Henning - In: Intereconomics 49 (2014) 2, pp. 95-101
Among the EU member states, increasing immigration has led to a recent debate over changes to European refugee and migration policies. The desire among the poor to escape from a hopeless economic and social situation in their home countries is the most common impetus for their migration. As the...
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Entscheidungstheoretische Instrumente für die Politikberatung?
Weimann, Joachim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 96 (2016) 8, pp. 620-624
Politikberatung ist in einer komplexen Umwelt nicht trivial. Versucht man mit theoretischen Modellen Politikfragen zu beantworten, sind die Modellvoraussetzungen entscheidend, aber oft nicht mit der Realität vereinbar. Der Sachverständigenrat setzt auf eine evidenzbasierte Politikberatung....
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Soziale Normen als Instrument des Nudgings: ein Experiment
Michel, Corinna; Schneider, Julius - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 87 (2018) 1, pp. 119-131
können und wo von deren Nutzung abgesehen werden sollte. In einem Online durchgeführten Experiment habenwir soziales Feedback … Arbeitsproduktivität motiviert. In dem Experiment mussten Versuchspersonen die Rolle einer Lehrerin oder eines Lehrers einnehmen und … online experiment. It is assumed, that social feedback can motivate subjects to be more productive. In the experiment …
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Toward a cognitive science of markets: Economic agents as sense-makers
Johnson, Samuel G. B. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-49, pp. 1-29
Behavioral economics aspires to replace the agents of neoclassical economics with living, breathing human beings. Here, the author argues that behavioral economics, like its neoclassical counterpart, often neglects the role of active sense-making that motivates and guides much human behavior....
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Nährwertkennzeichnung: die Ampel erreicht die Verbraucher am besten
Hagen, Kornelia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 22, pp. 2-12
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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Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy
Babcock, Linda; Congdon, William J.; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-14
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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Individual wealth accumulation: Why does dining together as a family matter?
Chatterjee, Swarn; Palmer, Lance; Goetz, Joseph - In: Applied Economics Research Bulletin 8, 2, pp. 1-22
This study uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine whether self-regulation, proxied by regularly dining together with family, is associated with better financial preparedness and greater wealth accumulation across time among households. Findings reveal that individuals who...
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Influence of the endowment effect on the valuation of goods: An experimental verification
Gawrońska, Magdalena - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 11 (2015) 1, pp. 86-96
economic experiment was used. Its results were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics and econometric methods. The …
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