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Müller, Helge; Schumacher, Christoph; Feess, Eberhard - 2011

We extend gender research on risk behavior to betting markets. Our data set consists of all 5,136,660 bets in New Zealand from 2006 to 2009 and allows assigning each bet to individ-ual bettors. Women are much more prone to the favorite-longshot bias and suffer higher losses. Usually, betting on...

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Study on Awareness Policies for Dissemination of Family Internet Rules by Libertarian-Paternalism

Saito, Nagayuki - 2018

In order to discuss the future direction of policy making for protecting children online, this paper discusses the effectiveness of protection policies based on libertarian paternalism from the standpoint of behavioral economics by referring to the efforts of the Kariya authorities, Aichi...

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Why do we consume as we do? The case of ICT spending in the Spanish market

Ruíz-Rúa, Aurora; Fernández-Bonilla, Fernando; … - 2023

This paper presents the research on the last fourteen years household spending patterns on information and communication technology (ICT) and the associated use of digital services due to socioeconomic variables. We found that over the 14 years covered by the research, there is a gender gap in...

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Does willingness to pay increase with the number and strictness of sustainability labels?

Tebbe, Eva; von Blanckenburg, Korbinian - 2017

this question, we conducted a laboratory experiment with 191 student respondents, testing consumer valuations of different …

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Irrationality rings!: Experimental evidence on mobile tariff choices

Barth, Anne-Kathrin; Graf, Julia - 2012

experiment among German university students and staff, finding that participants are often not aware of their actual consumption …

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Does it really get better with age? Life-cycle patterns of confidence in Germany

Pannenberg, Markus; Friehe, Tim - 2019

This paper investigates if and how confidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age … profiles of a novel continuous confidence measure and the probability of overconfidence, conditioning on personality traits … gross wage distribution as our measure of confidence. We find that both the level of confidence and the overconfidence …

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The Assessment of COVID-19 Effect on European Union Industrial Sector

Tudorache, Maria-Daniela; Nae, Maria Tamara; Jianu, Ionut - 2021

In this paper, we estimated the impact of COVID-19 shock on the industrial production and on the confidence in industry … confidence index. The outlooks are still exposed to uncertainty, but these have been improved in the latest months. …

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Does austerity pay off?

Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot; Pfeifer, Johannes - 2014

market confidence, bringing about a reduction in yield spreads? We employ a new panel data set which contains sovereign yield …

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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team: Incentives in Overlapping Contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019

provision. We test our model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

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Wage negotiations and strategic responses to transparency

Werner, Peter - 2019

This paper investigates how negotiations between employers and employees respond to exogenous and endogenous wage transparency. In a treatment with exogenous wage transparency, employers' offers increase significantly compared to the case when offers are private information. Moreover, the share...

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