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Do behavioral needs influence the trading activity of individual investors? Evidence from repeated natural experiments
Gao, X; Lin, TC - 2010
Multiple natural experiments of large jackpot lotteries in Taiwan are used to document a substitution effect between individual investor trading and lottery buying. We establish five key findings. First, when the jackpot exceeds 500 million Taiwan dollars (about 15 million U.S. dollars), the...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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On the strategic use of attention grabbers
Kfir Eliaz; Ran Spiegler - Department of Economics, Brown University; Department … - 2011
between media content providers (broadcast TV channels, internet portals, newspapers) over consumers with limited attention …
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Consultants’ advice to adopt management control systems: the joint effect of persuasion triggers and manager competence
Leiby, Justin - 2011
common persuasion tactics in the consulting setting, specifically social proof and scarcity (Cialdini 1993; 2001), which are … likely to influence the consultant’s advice to the manager.In study 2, I conduct an experiment using professional consultants … the persuasion tactics of social proof or scarcity, and that the consultant applies these tactics based on the manager …
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THE PRESENCE OF THE DEICITIC ADVERBS ON THE SITES THAT PROMOTE THE TOURISM. NECESSITY OR PERSUASION?
PINTEA, Silvia - 2012
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Setting hospital infection control policy : a decision-making framework incorporating health economics and healthcare epidemiology
Halton, Kate Amanda - 2009
Background: Reducing rates of healthcare acquired infection has been identified by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care as a national priority. One of the goals is the prevention of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI). At least 3,500 cases of...
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Research in infection control practice: A proposed collaborative model
Creedy, Debra; Winch, Sarah; Vickerstaff, Joy - 2002
The provision of health care services by specialist practitioners has implications for professional development particularly in relation to research skills and scholarship. Infection control practitioners (ICPs) are well placed to conduct and promote research that examines existing practices and...
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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS
Reinhold, Steffen - 2008
In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...
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Some Identification Issues in Nonparametric Linear Models with Endogenous Regressors
Severini, Thomas A.; Tripathi, Gautam - 2005
In applied work economists often seek to relate a given response variable y to some causal parameter mu* associated with it. This parameter usually represents a summarization based on some explanatory variables of the distribution of y, such as a regression function, and treating it as a...
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CAUSAL EFFECT ESTIMATION UNDER LINEAR AND LOG-LINEAR STRUCTURAL NESTED MEAN MODELS IN THE PRESENCE OF UNMEASURED CONFOUNDING
Wang, Chia-Hao - 2010
In randomized clinical trials where the effects of post-randomization factors are of interest, the standard regression analyses are biased due to unmeasured confounding. The instrumental variables (IV; Angrist et al., 1996) and G-estimation procedures under structural nested mean models (SNMMs;...
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