Search Results - subject:"Reference points"

Prospect theory, reference points, and health decisions

Schwartz, Alan; Goldberg, Julie; Hazen, Gordon - In: Judgment and Decision Making 3 (2008) February, pp. 174-180

(actual) past or (expected) future losses that result in shifted reference points. After providing a graphical description of …

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Psychological Pricing. Private vs. Professional Vendors

Caneghem, T. Van - In: Review of Business and Economics LIII (2008) 4, pp. 475-489

humans’ reliance upon cognitive reference points, zeroes are found to dominate prices of both professional and private …

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Contracts as reference points – experimental evidence

Fehr, Ernst; Hart, Oliver; Zehnder, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

and, in particular, Hart and Moore’s notion that contracts provide reference points. In this paper, we examine …

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My Wage is Unfair! Just a Feeling or Comparison with Peers?

Schneck, Stefan - In: Review of Behavioral Economics 1 (2014) 3, pp. 245-273

income comparisons with peers. We also contribute findings to the literature on reference points. When asked about a …

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Insurance demand and social comparison: An experimental analysis

Friedl, Andreas; Miranda, Katharina Lima de; Schmidt, Ulrich - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48 (2014) 2, pp. 97-109

set up a simple model with social reference points and show that in the presence of inequality aversion social comparison …

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The effect of working time preferences and fair wage perceptions on entrepreneurial intentions among employees

Werner, Arndt; Gast, Johanna; Kraus, Sascha - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 1, pp. 137-160

To date, little is known about how working time preferences and fair wage perceptions affect employees’ entrepreneurial intentions. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we provide first evidence that the difference between the actual and desired amount of working hours in...

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Strategic reference points in family firms

Kotlar, Josip; Massis, Alfredo De; Fang, Hanqing; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 597-619

reference points, and consequently identifies key drivers of variation in the R&D investment behavior of family firms. By … family and non-family firms. The findings offer insights into how internal and external reference points are considered in …

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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

of wage cyclicality. We present evidence that elements of perceived "fairness" or "reference points" in reservation wages …

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Strategic positioning and strategic types of small firms

María García-Pérez, Ana; Yanes-Estévez, Vanessa; … - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 21 (2014) 3, pp. 431-449

) including strategic reference points (SRP) (Fiegenbaum et al. , 1996). Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies the …

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Do institutional and individual investors differ in their preference for financial skewness?

Luchenberg, Kimberly F.; Seiler, Michael J. - In: The journal of behavioral finance : a publication of … 15 (2014) 4, pp. 299-311

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