This paper shows how retail borrowers' focus on recent interest rates as reference points may lead to maturity choices which are inconsistent with normative predictions. A laboratory experiment reveals that borrowers prefer longer maturities when interest rates have fallen and shorter maturities...

Based on an incentivized non-anonymous trust game with 230 elementary school pupils aged between 6 and 11 years, we investigate the development of trust and trustworthiness across age groups. Trust increases with age, thereby increasing the profits of both the trustor and the trustee. The...