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Essays in behavioral economics and entrepreneurship
Schäfer, Sebastian - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384037
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Overoptimistic entrepreneurs : predicting wellbeing consequences of self-employment
Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738890
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064447
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020 - 2nd revision June 2020
stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence on two important choices made by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238957
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964220
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 124 (2022) 1, pp. 35-68
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Historical roots of entrepreneurship-facilitating culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions
Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 53 (2019) 9, pp. 1296-1307
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213392
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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions
Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of … innovation activity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872288
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003
with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit … people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402471
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Herding and contrarian behavior in financial markets : an internet experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2004 - Revised version: June 2004, First version: November 2002
Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: We report results of an internet experiment … designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets (Avery and Zemsky, AER, 1998). More than 6400 … subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm, participated in the experiment. As …
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