This paper highlights the moderating effect of retailer CSR perception and CSR contribution type on the relationship between advertised reference price (ARP) and consumer evaluations. A two-by-three between-subjects factorial design is employed with the manipulation of ARP and CSR contribution...

The job demands of university academic staff members leave them susceptible to the experience of work-leisure conflict (WLC). WLC is often studied as a composite construct despite its multidimensional nature and findings suggest it negatively affects employee psychological wellbeing. This study...

Neoclassical Economics and the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) along with all its types have been a go to for investors since decades but why do almost all speculators tend to lose money while making their financial decisions? Stock market is the most vulnerable place towards uncertainty and...

This paper models peoples psychological well-being (PWB) by applying machine learning methods to a large dataset in the United States. PWB can be quantified by three self-reported variables: general happiness, satisfaction with the financial situation, and satisfaction with the job. First, we...

Organisations have shifted from traditional beliefs to the incorporation of agile methods for attaining high levels of performance through its established goals and objectives. Emotional intelligence (EI) is envisaged to contribute to the achievement of higher levels of performance. With the...

The new institutional economics has one of its roots in evolutionary thinking. The idea is that there is competition among organizational forms. Some forms spread faster than others and thereby displace and eventually destroy the less well adapted forms. In the end, the most 'efficient'...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on employee engagement in public sectors. To meet this purpose, a quantitative and qualitative study survey was conducted and the researcher used an explanatory survey research design. The study was used...

In zunehmend polypolistischen Anbietermärkten wird der grenzüberschreitende Austausch von Waren und Dienstleistungen zu einer wesentlichen Erfolgsdeterminante für große Teile der Marktakteure. Zugleich formen digitale Disruptionen sowie ein kaum mehr berechenbarer technologischer Fortschritt...

The complexities of Public Administration have gained the growing attention of scholars around the world, mainly due to the impacts of the reforms implemented under the doctrine of New Public Management (which aims to apply concepts and practices of private management in public management) on...

This Survey on Ethics and Corruption in the Federal Public Service was held online from April 28 to May 28, 2021, in partnership with the Office of the Federal Comptroller General (CGU), the Ministry of the Economy, and the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). All civil servants were...

This Survey on Ethics and Corruption in the Federal Public Service was held online from April 28 to May 28, 2021, in partnership with the Office of the Federal Comptroller General (CGU), the Ministry of the Economy, and the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). All civil servants were...

In zunehmend polypolistischen Anbietermärkten wird der grenzüberschreitende Austausch von Waren und Dienstleistungen zu einer wesentlichen Erfolgsdeterminante für große Teile der Marktakteure. Zugleich formen digitale Disruptionen sowie ein kaum mehr berechenbarer technologischer Fortschritt...

Numerous laboratory studies find that minor nuances of presentation and description change behavior in ways that are inconsistent with standard economic models. How much do these context effect matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to...

This paper sets out to investigate the role of additive uncertainty under plausible non-standard central bank loss functions over future inflation. Building on a substantial body of evidence in the economic psychology literature, this paper postulates (i) period-by-period loss functions that are...

The economics of happiness is an attractive and interesting way to provide broader concept of wealth. It is able to provide understanding on relative utility that does not just depend as intervene by individual choices within monetary budget constraint but also non-monetary factors. Therefore,...

"In this ground-breaking book, Phil Barden reveals what decision science explains about people's purchase behaviour, and specifically demonstrates its value to marketing. He shares the latest research on the motivations behind consumers' choices and what happens in the human brain as buyers make...

Creating a system of stimulation and motivation of employees is one of the complex and time-consuming issues in the activities of any organization, regardless of the goals of its activities and ownership.The article outlines the main approaches to the issue of labour motivation as a...

Purpose - This paper aims to discuss the dilemma of terrorism as a political phenomenon that many political scientists care about; however, they find themselves incapable of explaining some of its aspects and they resort to other disciplines. The second part of the dilemma is related to the...

Wir erleben derzeit eine Krise, die unsere gewohnten Lebensverhältnisse erschüttert. Alltägliches, selbstverständliches Handeln ist in Frage gestellt. Es wurden viele Maßnahmen getroffen, um uns vor der Bedrohung durch das Virus zu schützen. Es geht bei diesen Maßnahmen darum möglichst...

Intuitive decision making has a large and often negative impact in economic decisions, but its measurement and quantification remains challenging. Following research from psychology, behavioral economists have often attempted to causally manipulate the balance of intuition and deliberation by...

Deutschland weist im Umgang mit finanziellen Fragen einige Besonderheiten auf. Dazu gehören die geringen Erträge der umfangreichen internationalen Anlagen dieser exportorientierten Volkswirtschaft, die auch Jahrzehnte nach dem ersten Befund unzureichende Bereitstellung von Risikokapital und...

We propose that a deeper integration still between psychology and evolutionary economics has value to offer by offering us a deeper perspective on the dynamics that underlie the behaviour that drives evolutionary change. We introduce psychological perspectives on the behaviour whereby change is...

We present a tool and method for measuring the psychological and cultural distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of comparison. Since psychological data is dominated by samples drawn from WEIRD nations, and overwhelmingly, the United States, we...

The mathematical framework of psychological game theory is useful for describing many forms of motivation where preferences depend directly on own or others' beliefs. It allows for incorporating, e.g., emotions, reciprocity, image concerns, and self-esteem in economic analysis. We explain how...

There is nowadays an extensive literature about irrationality of the economic human decision making. Economic Psychology and Behavioral Finances attempt to provide better models of the economic and financial human reasoning, using knowledge provided by Psychology and Behavioral Sciences....

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal...

Historically, Black Americans suffered through slavery since the 1700s. They became enslaved and seen as property and not an individual. During those dreadful years, America continuously enforced laws to make sure Black families did not have an ownership or any resource that can transform their...

"Psychology and Behavioral Economics offers an expert introduction to how psychology can be applied to a range of public policy areas. It examines the impact of psychological research for public policy making in economic, financial and consumer sectors, in education, healthcare and at workplace,...