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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"sunk cost"”.
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RFID : ROI opportunities after the sunk cost
… to prevent Wal-Mart suppliers from treating the cost of EPC standard-adoption from just becoming another one of those nagging costs of doing business with Wal-Mart and how the cost of RFID adoption can be leveraged to differentiate the company's products and service levels from that of the …
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SOCIAL AND REPUTATIONAL DRIVERS OF SUNK-COST SENSITIVITY IN INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
… resources? This dissertation argues that sunk-cost behavior is shaped more by social pressures than by cognitive bias. Across three preregistered, “waste-free” studies, I show that people persist to protect reputation and relationships—especially when others have invested or when …
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Emotion and the Tripartite Emotion-functioning Capacities in Debiasing Sunk-cost Fallacy: A Trait-level Review
… emotion-functioning capacities in debiasing sunk-cost fallacy at trait-level. An online survey was used to study 378 US adults and found that dispositional positive and negative affectivity, trait-mindfulness, trait-EI and reappraisal were associated with debiasing sunk-cost fallacy. Among …
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Essays on Behavioural Finance and Sports Economics
… team success model based on the home venue. The sunk cost concept is central to behavioural economists’ arguments, but evidence has mainly stemmed from laboratory experiments. Empirical evidence pertaining to sunk costs and their role in the decision-making processes is rather sparse. We used a …
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The Influence of Motivation and Investment on the Length of Time Pilots Fly into Degraded Weather
… of time pilots fly into degraded weather. The sunk-cost effect claims that financially motivated pilots would continue longer when weather is encountered late in the flight. The results revealed that the financially motivated pilots continued longer than the non-financially motivated pilots …
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EFFECTS OF TRENDS IN INFORMATION ON PREDICTIVE JUDGMENTS
… the participant could suggest that an aspect of sunk-cost fallacy is due to errors in predicting the likelihood of future success based on past information. Our findings help understand the dynamics of how people make predictive judgments over time and could inform future research into the …
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THE EFFECT OF GOAL DISTANCE ON GOAL VALUE AND ESCALATION OF COMMITMENT
… account of escalation of commitment assumes that sunk cost is the primary antecedent for this behavior. However, it has been noted that high sunk costs are confounded with progress made toward a goal and hidden payoff information. Thus, the apparent escalation tendency may be a consequence of goal …
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Essays On Oil Price Volatility And Irreversible Investment
… investment decisions using real options theory. Cost incurred in oil drilling is considered sunk cost, thus irreversible. I collect detailed data on onshore, development oil well drilling on the North Slope of Alaska from 2003 to 2014. Volatility is modeled by constructing GARCH, EGARCH, and …
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Essays on market structure, competition and consumer behavior
… markets can be explained by the endogenous sunk cost model of Sutton (1991). While concentration at the regional level has increased dramatically, deregulation has left almost intact the market structure of MSA markets. A significant portion of the observed increase in bank quality can be …
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Rationalist causes of war : mechanisms, experiments, and East Asian wars
… for peaceful bargains that would avoid the costs of war? In the rationalist theory of war, private information and the commitment problem are the key causes of war. I study the effects of these factors - and the mechanisms regulating their effects - through randomized experiments, historical …
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Essays on contract theory and behavioral economics
… hypothesis. It also leads to endowment and sunk cost effects. The model implies that behavior will converge to the one predicted by expected utility theory after a choice has been made a sufficiently large number of times. Chapter 2 develops a model of competition with non-exclusive …
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Besluitkoste as 'n bestuursprobleem
… which I think is of the greatest importance, is costs. In fact , there are very few decisions in business in which cost is not involved. Decisions are often wrongly taken because the wrong kind of costs were taken into consideration. The great problem in decision-making is to decide which are the …
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Vertical product differentiation and competition in the supermarket industry
… product differentiation (VPD) enciogenous sunk cost framework proposed by Sutton (1991), several empirical implications are identified and evaluated using a detailed dataset of store level observations from the supermarket industry. Chapter 2 provides a formal test of the hypothesis that …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
… or not five biases and fallacies (present bias, sunk cost fallacy, loss aversion, gambler’s fallacy and impact bias) affect the likelihood of depression, of an individual participating in socially (un)desirable behaviors and whether or not they are associated with lower incomes. Out of the five …
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Strategies to reduce product waste in the consumer packaged goods industry
The cost of waste for products such as soft drinks, shelf stable dry food, and dairy in the consumer packaged goods industry is massive, about $15 billion annually in the U.S.A. This thesis focuses on waste associated with product expiration since this type of waste involves both manufacturers and …
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Essays in Discrimination, Informational Preferences, and Social Preferences Under Uncertainty
… than belief-based partiality. Chapter 3: The Sunk Cost in Performance Beliefs We test whether real-effort costs influence how people update beliefs about their performance. We find that paying a cost to observe feedback alters belief adjustments, but is quite sensitive to informational …
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A model of the entry decision of potential raiders into the bidding for a target firm
… information. Each raider incurs a fixed takeover sunk. cost when she decides to enter the bidding. Therefore she wants to avoid bidding for the firm and losing the bid to a raider with a higher valuation. We analyze the Bayesian-Nash equilibrium in one-period, two-period and infinite period models …
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Understanding compound-induced histopathology in rat liver using gene expression network methods
Current drug discovery is a lengthy and costly pipeline; it takes between twelve and fifteen years and costs $1-2 billion (USD). As such, any compound failures represent a sunk cost – exacerbated if such failures occur later in the pipeline. Compound and drug induced liver injury is a significant …
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Flipping the Narrative: Highlighting the Positive Aspects of Healthy Aging
… recognition, representativeness, and sunk cost fallacy. Chapter 3 further explores knowledge. While the literature confirms that knowledge increases across the lifespan, it is unclear 1) if people are generally aware of this increase and 2) whether they hold expectations about the …
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