Personality is an important omitted variable in much of the Political Economy literature. While material self-interest is the base of most approaches to redistribution (first affecting preferences and then politics and policy), there is a paucity of research on how personality affects support...

This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence...

The market for luxury brands is expanding rapidly in India, thanks to economic deregulation, rapid GDP growth, increasing consumption, and a growing young and upper middle-class working population, who can be classified as closet consumers. Closet consumers are those who have not been born...

The main purpose of the study is to identify whether conservatism bias affects the relationship between personality traits and investment management. Questionnaire survey was conducted and the respondents were divided into two groups namely stock market investors and graduate students with major...

A personality theory focuses on variations among individuals. In forming a personality theory, it is essential to construct an image of the individual and the psychological processes that comprise that picture. A personality theory aims to investigate the psychological variations that form our...

One out of every five chief executives is a psychopath who is consumed with playing a game of corporate accomplishment, as he takes inhumane pleasure in violating moral code to ensure his dominance and personal gain over others in the workplace. In fact, there are a growing number of “triadic...

Within organizations in industrialized countries, the quality of human resources tends to become a major issue on the path to achieving a competitive advantage. According to the author's research, the implementation of the five-factor model of Costa and McCrae provides the solution for the above...

This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the wage distribution). Using longitudinal survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia, I combine unconditional quantile regressions with wage gap decompositions to identify the...