We view an individual’s legitimacy judgment as an attitude. It is influenced by a personal belief system composed of global values and domain-specific beliefs, consistent with the value–attitude system in marketing. Our context is the legitimacy of the Canadian oil sands industry. We...

In an era of globalised communication technologies, research is focussing on the potential of media as a means of ‘soft power’, to persuade people and wield influence. The issue of credibility also complicates the study of media as a means of soft power. The Hoot Media Research...

This paper explores who is financially literate, whether people accurately perceive their own economic decision-making skills, and where these skills come from. Self-assessed and objective measures of financial literacy can be linked to consumers' efforts to plan for retirement in the American...

We examined financial literacy among the young using the most recent wave of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We showed that financial literacy is low; fewer than one-third of young adults possess basic knowledge of interest rates, inflation, and risk diversification. Financial...

In this paper, we examine the financial literacy, thus the financial behaviour of 352 Greek households. In turn, we compare our findings with results from a similar survey we conducted on an equivalent sample of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our aim was to realise if there is any...

Im Zuge der jüngsten globalen Krisenphänomene und Fehlentwicklungen auf den Finanzmärkten sowie der zunehmenden Virulenz individueller und gesellschaftlicher Risiken, die mit modernen Geld- und Finanzwirtschaften verbunden sind, hat sich die Diskussion um die Programmatik finanzieller Bildung...

In diesem Beitrag stelle ich Ergebnisse aus einer explorativen Studie vor, in der das Finanzwissen von Studierenden und die Rolle zentraler Agenten der finanziellen Sozialisation untersucht wurden. In der Studie wurde eine adaptierte Version einer Skala des objektiven Finanzwissens verwendet. In...

When people exchange ideas, both truths and falsehoods can proliferate. We study the role of explanations for the spread of truths and falsehoods in 15 financial decision tasks. We pay participants to record the reasoning behind each of their answers, providing over 6,900 unique verbal...

We study the effects of low-intensity digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students' financial knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial education treatment and an incentive-based approach...