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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Endowment Effect"”.
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The Endowment Effect: A Self-Enhancement Perspective
… buyer and seller evaluation, referred to as the endowment effect, has been investigated and replicated across various domains because of its implications for rational decision-making. The endowment effect has been explained as a manifestation of loss aversion from the reference point of …
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Endowment effect, Status Quo Bias y default option.
… antes y después de poseerlo. A esto se le llama “Endowment Effect”, (Thaler, 1980) y será analizado en profundidad en el capítulo III. En el segundo ejemplo, se observa que el individuo se rehúsa a cambiar su situación por una mejor, este comportamiento opuesto a lo que se propone en la Teoría …
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Three essays on product quality and pricing
… Approvals The second essay measures the effect of competition in a certifier market. When customers purchase new products, there is often a degree of uncertainty about their quality. A common solution is to rely on a third-party certifier to provide some form of accreditation that signals …
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Three essays in decision making
… I develop a novel explanation for the well-known endowment effect - the tendency for owners to value goods more than non-owners do. According to a prominent explanation for this effect, the prospect of losing possessions creates psychological pain, inducing sellers to demand more than buyers will …
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Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies
… option, a phenomenon known as the default effect. The current research examined the default effect and the role of loss aversion and implied endorsement in the context of environmental policy. Two hundred nineteen undergraduate participants were asked to vote on an ostensible ballot …
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Essays on impact of risk preference on health and occupational choice
… of those models to allow for differential effects by race, gender and ethnicity. Using happiness as a utility proxy and objective health measures in our baseline model, I find strong evidence of heterogeneity in health state dependence of utility among males and females, hispanic and …
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Two Essays on Escalation of Commitment
… (vis. call options), and - as predicted by the endowment effect literature - this increased propensity to make a suboptimal decision is mediated by/ explained by the psychological ownership construct.</p>
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Evaluation of the design and implementation of climate change mitigation policies in developing countries
… study attempted to: 1. Compare transaction cost effects with asymmetric information effects on the supply response of developing countries to the clean development mechanism (CDM) 2. Compare the pollution-haven (initial CO2 endowment) effect with clean business climate effect on the supply …
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FOMO and the Consumer: Two Essays Examining an Antecedent and a Consequence of Fear of Missing Out
… of FOMO toward the target event. This main effect is replicated across a variety of scenarios, such as a local crawfish event and volunteering with a nonprofit. My findings also suggest that the experience of FOMO influences consumers’ interest in and word of mouth for that target event. …
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ESSAYS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
… 2: This paper experimentally investigates the effect of introducing un- available alternatives and irrelevant information regarding the alternatives on the optimality of decisions in choice problems. We find that interaction between the unavailable alternatives and irrelevant information …
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Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality
… of advanced dynamic methods highlights the effects of changes in other factors, such as investment income and the role of employed household members, which have previously received less attention. Further study of household survey data and a unique set of tax administration data enabled a …
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The Effect of Ownership on Consumers' Disposal Decisions: Research on Food Wastage and Recycling Behaviors
Research in consumer behavior has focused predominantly on how consumers make purchase decisions. However, much less attention has been directed toward examining post-purchase behaviors. In this dissertation, I examine how ownership affects individuals' disposal decisions of their current …