individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in … entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …

elicit and contrast patients’ authentic preferences (for five maternity ward attributes) with what care-givers believe them … to be. Conclusion: agents have a biased perception of principals’ preferences, and therefore a complete agency …: Informing the unaware medical care-givers about the patients' preferences, will improve treatment and patients' satisfaction. …

The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences do not change as a result of experience with the … commodity/service/event. Behavioural scientists have challenged this assumption, claiming that preferences constantly do change … as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for …

Risk premia in the consumption capital asset pricing model depend on preferences and dividends. We develop a … decomposition which allows for the separate treatment of both components. We show that preferences alone determine the risk …-return trade-off measured by the Sharpe-ratio. In general, the risk-return trade-off implied by preferences depends on the …

assumption of quadratic symmetric preferences, while being congruent with a risk management model. We show how the parameters of …

from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally …

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people’s economic attitudes. Much of the … economic attitudes, controlling for country fixed effects. We study several economic attitudes toward cooperation, the …’ economic attitudes, where ‘good’ is defined as conducive to higher per capita income and growth. Yet religious people tend to …

The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a … (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing when experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of … experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that …

which preferences are given precedence in society. We study the equilibrium of a game in which coalitions of individuals … preferences or localities. Individuals differ both in income and also as to whether they receive utility from some specific good …