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When and Why Matches Are More Effective Subsidies than Rebates

Bekkers, René - In: Replication in experimental economics, (pp. 183-211). 2015

effective than matching subsidies. A survey based field experiment with health charities was conducted among a national sample … do not decrease subsequent giving in a campaign for tsunami relief. The experiment could not test whether the greater …

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Four Classic Public Goods Experiments: A Replication Study

Eckel, Catherine C.; Harwell, Haley; Castillo G., José … - In: Replication in experimental economics, (pp. 13-40). 2015

This paper replicates four highly cited, classic lab experimental studies in the provision of public goods. The studies consider the impact of marginal per capita return and group size; framing (as donating to or taking from the public good); the role of confusion in the public goods game; and the...

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The Relative Effects of Identifying Versus Investigating Fraud Risks on Evaluators’ Assessments of Auditor Liability

Reffett, Andrew - In: Advances in accounting behavioural research 2013, (pp. 23-54). 2014

Commentators express concern that when auditors investigate for but fail to detect fraud, jurors might effectively penalize the auditors for having investigated for the fraud (AICPA, 2004; Coffee, 2004; Golden, Skalak, & Clayton, 2006). Consistent with these concerns, Reffett (2010) finds that, in a...

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Chapter 6 Bangladesh Experiences of Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

Habiba, Umma; Shaw, Rajib - In: Community based disaster risk reduction, (pp. 91-111). 2012

According to the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) (2008) , Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country to natural hazards and disasters due to its geography, high population density, and poverty. The country is exposed to a variety of recurring natural hazards such as floods, cyclones,...

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Chapter 5 Embodying Resilience: Narrating Gendered Experiences of Disasters in Fiji

Bennett, Kahukura; Neef, Andreas; Varea, Renata - In: Climate-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region : …, (pp. 87-112). 2020

This chapter explores the local narration of gendered experience of disasters in two iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) communities, Votua and Navala, both located in the Ba River catchment, Fiji. The methodology consisted of semi-formal interviews, talanoa, mapping sessions and journal entries from...

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Why Austrians should quit worrying and learn to love the lab

Oprea, Ryan; Powell, Benjamin - In: What is so Austrian about Austrian economics?, (pp. 145-163). 2010

Experimental economics has been treated with skepticism by some Austrian economists. We argue that experimental methods are consistent with strong versions of praxeology, and are therefore not methodologically problematic for Austrians. We further argue that experimental research methods have...

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USING NON-PARAMETRIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS TO FORECAST DAILY EXCESS STOCK RETURNS

Lael Joseph, Nathan; Brée, David S.; Kalyvas, Efstathios - In: Applications of artificial intelligence in finance and …, (pp. 93-125). 2004

Are the learning procedures of genetic algorithms (GAs) able to generate optimal architectures for artificial neural networks (ANNs) in high frequency data? In this experimental study, GAs are used to identify the best architecture for ANNs. Additional learning is undertaken by the ANNs to...

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Reference-Dependent Preferences : A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Individual Reference-Point Formation

Stommel, Evelyn - 2013

, such as those on investment and portfolio decisions, holding of shares, insurance patterns, or negotiation processes … question within behavioral economics, namely the research on reference points within human decision making processes. Based on … economics or organizational theory. · Practitioners such as managers and consultants interested in decision making processes …

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Preferences for gender diversity in high-profile jobs

Högn, Celina; Mayer, Lea; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2025

This paper examines preferences for gender diversity among co-workers. Using stated-choice experiments with 5,400 PhD students and university students in Germany, we uncover a substantial willingness to pay (WTP) for gender diversity of up to 5% of earnings on average. Importantly, we find that...

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Personalized reminders : evidence from a field experiment with voluntary retirement savings in Colombia

Gars, Jared; Prada, Laura; Tripodi, Egon; Borda, Santiago - 2025

A large share of the global workforce lacks access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. In Colombia, where labor informality is high, the government introduced the Beneficios Economicos Periodicos (BEPS) program to promote voluntary retirement savings. However, many enrollees fail to...

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