Existing research approaches the return on investment expected by entrepreneurs from the perspective of the investor. This paper argues that this perspective is inadequate when applied to entrepreneurs of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In fact, return on equity cannot be ascertained...

This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....

This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....

This paper provides field evidence that social distance between customers and reviewers influences the impact from online reviews on product sales. We conceptualize information on interpersonal similarity as a heuristic cue that helps customers to infer similarity in product preferences between...

In this paper we provide evidence that the trading activity of small retail investors carries significant genuine information for the short term out-of-sample forecasting of foreign exchange rates. Our findings are based on a unique dataset of around 2000 retail investors from the OANDA FXTrade...

This paper analyzes the inter-temporal relationship between currency price changes and their expectations on intra-day frequencies. We examine how price expectations are transmitted into prices by means of order flow and how order flow is affected by past prices (feedback effects). Based on a...

In order to guarantee confidentiality and privacy of firm-level data, statistical offices apply various disclosure limitation techniques. However, each anonymization technique has its protection limits, such that the probability of disclosing the individual information for some observations is...

Whereas the literature on additive measurement error has known a considerable treatment, less work has been done for multiplicative noise. In this paper we concentrate on multiplicative measurement error in the covariates, which contrary to additive error not only modifies proportionally the...

We develop a new general approach for handling multiplicative measurement error in continuous covariates in linear and nonlinear regression models. We apply the Simulation-Extrapolation (SIMEX) approach, which is a simulation based method of estimating and reducing the bias due to additive...

This paper focuses on modelling and estimating the starting point bias in closed-ended follow-up questions, where several bids are presented successively, depending on previous answers. Although the contingent valuation literature took off in the last decade, there is only one study modelling...