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We study the role of financial literacy for inter-temporal decision-making using an adapted version of the Convex Time … to show individual discount factors which are in line with extra-experimental market rates. At the same time, financial … evidence for inter-temporal arbitrage among financially literate respondents, thereby revealing a potential confound in time …
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This paper studies psychological biases in take-up of annuities, using an incentivized experiment with a probability …-based sample (N = 3,038). Choosing an annuity was payoff-maximizing in the experiment at all prices, but take-up was incomplete and …
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On average young people "undersave" whereas old people "oversave" with respect to the rational expectations model of life-cycle consumption and savings. According to numerous studies on subjective survival beliefs, young people also "underestimate" whereas old people "overestimate" their...
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Financial literacy and economic preferences are considered to be important drivers of health, income, and general well-being. In this paper we bridge the gap between studies on financial literacy and research on economic preferences by how they interplay with each other and the field behavior of...
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We portray the valuation of retirement savings in terms of a mental time travel journey in which a proposed …
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Present bias is an important term in behavioral finance that is derived from the concept of self-control. Empirical research finds that present bias is associated with undesirable spending, borrowing, and saving behavior. Unlike previous research that focuses on one domain of financial behavior,...
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