Search Results - subject:"Relative concerns"

Positional Preferences and Narcissism: Evidence from “Money Burning” Dictator Games

Ayaita, Adam; Pull, Kerstin - In: Applied Economics Letters (2020) Latest Articles

We study the relationship between positional preferences (i.e., preferences concerning the relative rank or position in comparison to others) and narcissism. We distinguish two dimensions of narcissism: Narcissistic admiration captures self-enhancement through searching for being admired, and...

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Positional preferences and narcissism : evidence from "money burning" dictator games

Ayaita, Adam; Pull, Kerstin - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 3, pp. 267-271

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Relative performance concerns among investment managers

Whitmeyer, Mark - In: Annals of finance 15 (2019) 2, pp. 205-231

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Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment

Roth, Christopher P. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

I use a randomised conditional cash transfer program from Indonesia to provide evidence on peer effects in consumption of poor households. I combine this with consumption visibility data from Indonesia to examine whether peer effects in consumption differ by a good's visibility. In line with...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

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Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment

Roth, Christopher P - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328887

Relative concerns and delays in bargaining with private information

Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent - In: Games 4 (2013) 3, pp. 329-338

investigate the effects of one party having relative concerns about the bargaining outcome and the delay in reaching an agreement …. We find that facing an opponent with stronger relative concerns only hurts the bargainer when she is stronger than her … opponent. In addition, we show that an increase of one party's relative concerns will decrease the maximum delay in reaching an …

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