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Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior
(2015-01-27)
The Eurozone fiscal crisis has created pressure for institutional harmonization, but skeptics argue that cultural predispositions can prevent convergence in behavior. Our paper derives a robust cultural classification of ...
Reputation, Honesty, and Cheating in Informal Milk Markets in India
(2016-01-01)
Sellers display astounding differences in their cheating behavior, even in developing countries with weak enforcement of rules. Using the context of informal milk markets in India, we examine the role of reputation and ...
Mental Accounting in a Business Cycle Model
(2018-12-17)
Motivated by the consumer behavior literature, this paper presents a new business cycle model in which consumers incur a pain of paying and neglect the opportunity costs of consumption. Although consumers maximize their ...
Pushing Through or Slacking Off? Heterogeneity in the Reaction to Rank Feedback
(2018-03-30)
This paper studies heterogeneity in the reaction to rank feedback. In a laboratory experiment, individuals take part in a series of dynamic real-effort contests with intermediate feedback. To solve the identification problem ...
How did we do? The Impact of Relative Performance Feedback on Intergroup Hostilities
(2020-06-23)
Using a novel experimental design, I test how the exposure to information about a group’s relative performance causally affects the members’ level of identification and thereby their propensity to harm affiliates of ...
Smart (Phone) Investing? A Within Investor-Time Analysis of New Technologies and Trading Behavior
(2021-02-02)
Using transaction-level data from two German banks, we study the effects of smartphones on investor behavior. Comparing trades by the same investor in the same month across different platforms, we find that smartphones ...
The Disposition Effect in Boom and Bust Markets
(2021-02-05)
The disposition effect is implicitly assumed to be constant over time. However, drivers of the disposition effect (preferences and beliefs) are rather countercyclical. We use individual investor trading data covering several ...
CentERdata
CentERdata is an eminent research institute, located on the Tilburg University (TiU) campus. We have supported and contributed to research that is relevant to science, society and policy since 1997. We conduct research ...
CDAX
Der CDAX (Abkürzung für Composite DAX) wurde am 17. September 1993 bei der Deutschen Börse AG als zusätzlicher Index zum bekannten Deutschen Aktienindex (DAX) eingeführt. Während der DAX mit nur 30 Standardwerten eine ...
LINDA
LINDA is a sample-based longitudinal individual database that is directed primarily to researchers. The main purpose of the database is to provide researchers with the opportunity to study income development for different ...