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Effects of stress on economic decision-making: Evidence from laboratory experiments

Delaney, Liam; Fink, Gunther; Harmon, Colm - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2014

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision making among individuals aged 50 and older. Using the...

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Human Capital, Skills and Talent Development in South African Agribusiness

Rooyen, Johan van - In: Journal of Applied Management and Investments 3 (2014) 3, pp. 179-182

This study has evaluated the human capital and skills needs of the South African agribusiness industry in order to gain an improved understanding of the perceived drivers and shapers of the industry, identify ways in which the education system can be improved and to be able to contrast the fresh...

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Incentives for Experimenting Agents

Horner, Johannes; Samuelson, Larry - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2009

We examine a repeated interaction between an agent, who undertakes experiments, and a principal who provides the requisite funding for these experiments. The repeated interaction gives rise to a dynamic agency cost — the more lucrative is the agent’s stream of future rents following a...

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Students’ perceptions of education for sustainable development in the accounting and business curriculum at a business school in New Zealand

Sharma, Umesh; Kelly, Martin - In: Meditari Accountancy Research 22 (2014), pp. 130-148

sustainable business learning experience offered at DBS. The results suggest that students’ knowledge of sustainable business …

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Demand learning and firm dynamics: evidence from exporters

Berman, Nicolas; Rebeyrol, Vincent; Vicard, Vincent - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2015

This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple … model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets … their beliefs following a new demand shock, the younger they are. To test this learning mechanism, we make use of a specific …

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Risk and ambiguity in models of business cycles

Backus, David; Ferriere, Axelle; Zin, Stanley - In: Journal of Monetary Economics 69 (2015) C, pp. 42-63

We inject aggregate uncertainty — risk and ambiguity — into an otherwise standard business cycle model and describe its consequences. We find that increases in uncertainty generally reduce consumption, but they do not account, in this model, for either the magnitude or the persistence of the...

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