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General knowledge about climate change, factors influencing risk perception and willingness to insure
Menny, Claas; Osberghaus, Daniel; Pohl, Max; Werner, Ute - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In two empirical surveys in Germany the link between the information respondents have about climate change and their … extreme weather events and trust in external aid. Surprisingly, information campaigns based on scientific facts are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369497
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Small is beautiful: Experimental evidence of donors' preferences for charities
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper studies the effect of information about a charity's size on individuals' donations to that charity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646447
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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia
Kummer, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139789
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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia
Kummer, Michael E. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
network information, identification through partial overlaps in the network structure fails (e.g. in classrooms). Exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957727
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Do savings increase in response to salient information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2016
and comprehensible information about the pension system and individual expected pension payments. This reform did not … increase in savings partly crowds out charitable donations. Moreover, we present evidence suggesting that both information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536015
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Non-sequential search, competition and price dispersion in retail electricity
Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2016
direct measure of search intensity and combine this information with zip code level data on electricity tariffs between 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447766
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How do investors' expectations drive asset prices?
Lüders, Erik; Peisl, Bernhard - 2001
Asset price processes are completely described by information processes and investors´ preferences. In this paper we … stylized facts that look at first hand like financial market anomalies may be explained by an information process with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297751
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A mean variance king? Creation and resolution of uncertainty under the employment report's reign
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E. - 2001
This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on first and second moments of the … about the precise price impact of this information. Analyzing the US employment report, we find that headline information is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297797
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Small is beautiful: Experimental evidence of donors' preferences for charities
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
This paper studies the effect of information about a charity's size on individuals' donations to that charity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301692
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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia
Kummer, Michael E. - 2013
network information, identification through partial overlaps in the network structure fails (e.g. in classrooms). Exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327231