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Do professional norms in the banking industry favor risk-taking?
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Maréchal, Michel André - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624184
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Do professional norms in the banking industry favor risk-taking?
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Maréchal, Michel André - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617546
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Do professional norms in the banking industry favor risk-taking?
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Maréchal, Michel André - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663202
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Do Professional Norms in the Banking Industry Favor Risk-Taking?
Cohn, Alain - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958453
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Do Professional Norms in the Banking Industry Favor Risk-Taking?
Cohn, Alain - 2017
In recent years, the banking industry has witnessed several cases of excessive risk-taking that frequently have been attributed to problematic professional norms. We conduct experiments with employees from several banks in which we manipulate the saliency of their professional identity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961469
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Rankings and risk-taking in the finance industry
Kirchler, Michael; Lindner, Florian; Weitzel, Utz - 2016
Rankings are a pervasive feature of the finance industry. Although they have no direct monetary consequences, rankings provide utility for intrinsic (positive self-image) and extrinsic (status) reasons. We recruit a unique subject pool of 204 financial professionals and investigate how anonymous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417442
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Be patient when measuring Hyperbolic Discounting : stationarity, time consistency and time invariance in a field experiment
Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; Swart, Lisette - 2015
field experiment examines the extent to which this is the case. At different points in time, the same participants allocated … experiment on stationarity, time invariance and time consistency finds using a different design among a different type of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307819
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Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects : Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014
Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065867
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Be Patient When Measuring Hyperbolic Discounting : Stationarity, Time Consistency and Time Invariance in a Field Experiment
Janssens, Wendy - 2016
choice reversals only if individuals simultaneously violate both stationarity and time consistency. Our field experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004064
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Social status and risk-taking in investment decisions
Lindner, Florian; Kirchler, Michael; Rosenkranz, Stephanie - 2019
A pervasive feature in the finance industry is relative performance, which can include extrinsic (money), intrinsic (self-image), and reputational (status) motives. In this paper, we model a portfolio decision with two assets and investigate how reputational motives (i.e., the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001790