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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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Monte Carlo Experiments Using Stata: A Primer with Examples

Adkins, Lee C.; Gade, Mary N. - In: 30th anniversary edition, (pp. 429-477). 2012

Monte Carlo simulations are a very powerful way to demonstrate the basic sampling properties of various statistics in econometrics. The commercial software package Stata makes these methods accessible to a wide audience of students and practitioners. The purpose of this chapter is to present a...

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How tinted are your glasses? : gender views, beliefs and recommendations in hiring

Hochleitner, Anna; Tufano, Fabio; Facchini, Giovanni; … - 2025 - This draft: March 29, 2025

We study the gendered impact of recommendations at different stages of the hiring process. First, using a large sample of reference letters from the academic job market for economists, we document that women receive fewer "ability" and more "grindstone" letters. Next, we conduct two experiments...

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Fair institutions

Valasek, Justin; Wang, Weijia - 2025

The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important and novel dimension of context: whether the choice to redistribute occurs before...

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How Mood and Cues Regarding Information Subjectivity Influence Investor Effort to Process Financial Information

Erickson, Devon - In: Advances in accounting behavioral research, (pp. 77-101). 2022

Investors frequently make judgments and decisions in the presence of affect (i.e., mood or emotion). Investors' moods may influence the extent to which they incorporate available financial information in their investment judgments. I propose that investors interpret their moods as signals of the...

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Exploring tourism experiences : the vision of Generation Z versus artificial intelligence

Ivasciuc, Ioana-Simona; Candrea, Adina Nicoleta; Ispas, Ana - 2025

Generation Z, known for its digital fluency and distinct consumer behaviors, is an increasingly influential demographic in the tourism industry. As a sustainability-focused generation, their preferences and behaviors are shaping the future of travel. This study explores the tourism experiences...

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Mental accounting and cash transfers : experimental evidence from a humanitarian setting

Wicker, Till; Dalton, Patricio S.; Soest, Daniël Pieter van - 2025

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Climate pledges and greenwashing : information provision does not work

Battocletti, Vittoria; Desiato, Alfredo; Romano, Alessandro - 2025

Many firms are making net-zero and carbon neutral pledges. In principle, these pledges should help consumers identify sustainable options, but often they do not correspond to meaningful actions. In response, both in the U.S. and in Europe, courts and policymakers are requiring firms to disclose...

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