In dieser Arbeit werden parametrische Modelle zur Prognose von Spielen der Fußball-Bundesliga geschätzt. Dabei werden in einem ersten Schritt die Spielstärken der beteiligten Mannschaften geschätzt, aus denen zu erwartende Tordifferenzen abgeleitet werden. Hierbei werden verschiedenen...

People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...

Indicators of trust, confidence, optimism or sentiment among consumers and/or investors, are published continuously in the mass media. More importantly, these indices seem not only to reflect how the state of the real economy is perceived by private agents, but can also help predict the future...