Since it is still unclear to what extent time allocation retrospectively reported in questionnaires, reflects people's actual behavior, examining the accuracy of responses to time use survey questions is of crucial importance. We analyze the congruence of time use information assessed through...

Evidence from many countries in recent years suggests that collateral values and recovery rates on corporate defaults can be volatile and, moreover, that they tend to go down just when the number of defaults goes up in economic downturns.(...)

In diesem Papier untersuchen wir experimentell, ob Informationsintermediäre wieRatingagenturen die Bonität von Kreditnehmern unterschiedlich bewerten, wenn sie ex-postdie Richtigkeit eigener Bewertungen herbeiführen können (sog. Self-fulfilling Prophecies).Diese Frage ist besonders im...