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Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms

Reyes, Germán - 2024

This paper shows that the bunching of wages at round numbers is partly driven by firm coarse wage-setting. Using data … from over 200 million new hires in Brazil, I first establish that contracted salaries tend to cluster at round numbers …

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Coarse wage-setting and behavioral firms

Reyes, Germán - 2024

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Looking for psychological barriers in nine European stock market indices

Lobão, Júlio; Pereira, Cristiano - In: Dutch Journal of Finance and Management 1 (2016) 1, pp. 1-14

In this paper we examine nine European stock market indices for indication of psychological barriers at round numbers … that the relationship between risk and return tends to be weaker at the proximity of round numbers which poses a challenge …

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Looking for psychological barriers in nine European stock market indices

Lobão, Júlio; Pereira, Cristiano - In: Dutch journal of finance and management 1 (2016) 1/39, pp. 1-14

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Indirect estimation and econometrics exams: how to live a round life

Calzolari, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni … - 2015

are not round numbers, this random error in the initial stage of the exam can be corrected for immediately, thus reducing … evaluation bias. The procedure offers the further advantage of rounding markers’ life by allowing them to check round numbers …

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A Critical Evaluation of the Significance of Round Numbers in European Equity Markets in Light of the Predictions from Benford’s Law

Kalaichelvan, Mohandass; Lim Kai Jie, Shawn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

, we find possible evidence of price clustering around round numbers at the 1000 level in 2 indices [CAC, DAX] even after …

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Effects of Gender and Age on Retrospective Time Judgements

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Morales, Antonio J.; … - Instituto de Estudios Sociales de Andalucía (IESA) - 2004

This study provides additional empirical evidence to the research concerning the effects of gender and age on retrospective time judgements using data obtained from a Spanish database with more than 40,000 individual observations on time estimations. Statistical analyses were performed using the...

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Estimating Time by Counting Hands

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Morales, Antonio J.; … - Instituto de Estudios Sociales de Andalucía (IESA) - 2004

300 minutes. Our aim is to test whether subjects use round numbers when estimating time. We find that the round number is …

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