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Özgümüs, Asri - 2021

This dissertation consists of five essays contributing to a better understanding of three fundamental lines of research in behavioral economics: trust and cooperation in social interactions, gender discrimination, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. All essays are novel contributions...

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The influence of moral costs and heuristics on individual decision making : five essays in behavioral economics

Hermann, Daniel - 2018

In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed … prenatal androgen exposure on loss aversion, as an essential driver of heuristics in financial economics, is analyzed. In … chapter four, we went beyond the heuristics applied by stock investors and experimentally investigate disposition ... …

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Mental models of behavior change: can mindfulness and spirituality support sustainable food consumption?

Werner, Aspasia - 2020

This dissertation explores the relationship between sustainable food consumerism and mental models. A special focus is placed on the concepts of spirituality and mindfulness as they inform and alter the mental processing of stimuli. The guiding study questions are: (1) Which mental models and...

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Contract farming in developing countries - a behavioral perspective on contract choice and compliance

Fischer, Sabine - 2017

Although there is a lot of evidence for the positive welfare effects of contract farming, it is not clear how to integrate farmers into contracts and how to maintain stable long-term-relationships between farmers and agri-business firms. While Contract Farming is a formal institutional...

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When friends give bad advice : analyzing response to recommendation performance of close others

Demming, Carsten Leo - 2020

Produktempfehlungen sind im alltäglichen Umgang zwischen Konsumenten üblich und wirken sich stark auf Konsumentscheidungen aus. Das Verständnis von Faktoren, die Konsumenten dazu bringen, Empfehlungen zu befolgen, ist daher für Manager und Verbraucherforscher gleichermaßen relevant. Obwohl...

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Essays on social preferences in children and adolescents: experimental evidence from Colombia and India

Carrillo Celis, Oscar Daniel - 2020

This dissertation presents three independent essays that elicit social preferences in school children by using a combination of experimental measures and survey data. Chapter 2 consider the development of motivations for helping in informal risk-sharing networks from a sample of school children...

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How to foster prosocial behavior? : essays on experimental economics

Späth, Maximilian - 2021

Der Ausgangspunkt dieser Dissertation ist der Gedanke, dass es in dem Interesse der Gesellschaft ist, prosoziales Verhalten zu fördern. Weitaus fraglicher ist, welche Strategien geeignet sind, um dieses Ziel zu erreichen. In dieser Arbeit betrachte ich drei Maßnahmen: Die Einführung von...

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Determinations of other-regarding behavior and the private provision of public goods

Brenig, Mattheus - 2021

Diese Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur Forschung, die die im ökonomischen Standardmodell verwendete Annahme des eng gefassten Eigeninteresses in Frage stellt. Der erste Teil der Arbeit umfasst drei experimentelle Studien über soziale Präferenzen. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit umfasst drei...

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