There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in … disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed and critical assumptions for their … application are highlighted. We sketch current research that aims at incorporating personality traits into economic models of …

inquire into the agents' preferences and to explain how they relate to the human genetic endowment and how they change over …

of evolving consumer preferences that is molded in an evolutionary paradigm. The theory allows to better assess how …

Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … explained by personality variables. …