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Financial education and consumers’ willingness to change behavior
Chatterjee, Swarn; Green-Pimentel, Leslie; Turner, Pamela - In: Investment Management and Financial Innovations 7 (2010) 3, pp. 73-81
This paper uses proprietary data comprising of 4,155 participants who attended financial education seminars conducted by a major U.S. consumer credit counseling agency in 2007. In this study, knowledge gained from attending the seminars is estimated using a multivariate regression model. Results...
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Essays in behavioral and experimental economics
Laske, Katharina - 2018
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Essays on prosocial and competitive behavior
Schier, Uta Katharina - 2018
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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 and two essays dealing with behavioral aspects of moral costs. In chapter two, we investigate the effect a traders’ decision can have on the disposition effect heuristic when...
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Essays on social contexts for prosocial behavior
Gelhaar, Felix - 2019
This dissertation studies the role of social contexts for prosocial behavior. Motivated by insights from psychology, preferences are assumed to be context-sensitive. The extent to which individuals are prosocial depends therefore on the social and economic context. This dissertation investigates...
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The ruble between the hammer and the anvil: The impact of oil prices and economic sanctions
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 44, pp. 587-591
hand with the Western sanctions that were imposed due to the political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At the same … due to the falling oil prices, while the sanctions are playing a rather subordinate role. …
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Der Rubel zwischen Hammer und Amboss: Der Einfluss von Ölpreisen und Wirtschaftssanktionen
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 44, pp. 1051-1056
hand with the Western sanctions that were imposed due to the political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At the same … due to the falling oil prices, while the sanctions are playing a rather subordinate role. …
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates
McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing sanctions for infractions. Empirical studies consistently show that job … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some … evidence that longer-term effects of benefit sanctions may be negative. …
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Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...
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External investigations and disciplinary sanctions against auditors: The impact on audit quality
De Fuentes, Cristina; Illueca, Manuel; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 3, pp. 313-347
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the impact of disciplinary sanctions imposed on Spanish auditing firms … and their engagement partners. The disciplinary sanctions resulted from external investigations, which revealed …
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