1.
Risk and Return in General: Theory and Evidence
Number of pages: 150
Posted: 18 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Series
Pine River Capital Management
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9,700
2.
Transfer Pricing
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 06 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
Fayetteville State University - School of Business and Economics, Fayetteville State University - School of Business and Economics and Fayetteville State University - School of Business and Economics
Downloads
7,861
3.
Buy or Bite?
Economics of the Undead, edited by Glen Whitman & James Dow (2014), pp. 123-129
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Downloads
7,129
4.
Human Nature and Institutional Analysis
In E. Brousseau and J.-M. Glachant, eds., New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook, 2008, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 81-99
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 28 Nov 2005
Last Revised: 23 Jul 2018
Working Paper Series
Pompeu Fabra University - Department of Economics and Business
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6,809
5.
I Didn’t Want to Offend You: The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 19 Aug 2019
Working Paper Series
Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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4,732
6.
Kahneman and Tversky and the Origin of Behavioral Economics
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 07-003/1
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 14 Jan 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Amsterdam
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3,782
7.
The Loss of Loss Aversion: Will It Loom Larger Than Its Gain?
Journal of Consumer Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads
3,506
8.
The New Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms: A Guide to the Vocabulary
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 11 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
Market Platform Dynamics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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3,259
9.
The Use of Algorithms in Society
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 23-46
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 23 Dec 2022
Last Revised: 07 Dec 2023
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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3,029
10.
A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior
FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-6
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 14 Jul 2006
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Management
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2,907
11.
Neuromarketing: No Brain, No Gain!
Dynamic Research Journals' Journal of Economics and Finance (DRJ-JEF), Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 17-29.
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 02 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Zimbabwe and Liverpool John Moores University
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2,438
12.
Heuristics and Public Policy: Decision Making Under Bounded Rationality
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 19-04
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 20 Jun 2018
Last Revised: 14 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Leicester, University of Leicester - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School
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2,312
13.
Investor Memory
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 15 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2024
Working Paper Series
Bocconi Univesity, Maastricht University - Department of Finance and University of Amsterdam
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2,285
14.
On Liberalism
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 30 Nov 2023
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2024
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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2,276
15.
Kin-Based Institutions and Economic Development
Number of pages: 117
Posted: 09 Sep 2022
Last Revised: 16 Feb 2024
Working Paper Series
Bowdoin College, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science and Department of Economics, George Mason University., Harvard University and George Mason University
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2,202
16.
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field
Number of pages: 87
Posted: 09 Jun 2020
Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Working Paper Series
Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business, University of Bonn - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Mannheim - Department of Banking and Finance
There are 3 versions of this paper
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field
Number of pages: 87
Posted: 09 Jun 2020
Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
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2,036
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2023-17
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 09 Feb 2023
Downloads
46
Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field
NBER Working Paper No. w30910
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 06 Feb 2023
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2023
Downloads
6
Downloads
2,036
17.
Anomalies: Utility Maximization and Experienced Utility
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 16 Dec 2005
Working Paper Series
Princeton University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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2,031
18.
Micro-Symposium on Orin Kerr's 'A Theory of Law'
Green Bag 2d, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2013, pp. 213-226, Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012, pp. 487-502, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-05, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-105
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 18 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Willamette University College of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, Yale University - Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, St. John’s University - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, University of Chicago - Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Harry M. Walborsky Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Associate Dean, Business Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, McGill University - Department of Political Science, Suffolk University Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Marquette University - Law School, Independent, Notre Dame Law School, Northeastern University - School of Law, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Berger & Montague, P .C. and Saint Louis University - School of Law
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1,978
19.
Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications
HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS, Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew Jackson, eds., Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 69–91., Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #05-09
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 04 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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1,882
20.
The Origin of Behavior
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 15 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Downloads
1,819
21.
Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 12 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016
Working Paper Series
Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business
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1,793
22.
It's Just Like Magic: The Economics of Harry Potter
Journal of Economics and Finance Education. Vol. 13 (2), Winter 2014: 90-98.
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 31 May 2013
Last Revised: 23 Jan 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Gustavus Adolphus College and San Jose State University
Downloads
1,779
23.
The Impact of College Sports Success on the Quantity and Quality of Student Applications
Southern Economic Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Oct 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Virginia Tech
Downloads
1,747
24.
Analysis on Car Elasticities: A Comparison on Toyota and Other Brands in Thailand
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 29 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent, Independent and Independent
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1,734
25.
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 968, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 58
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 24 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Chicago, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
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1,662
26.
Rational After All: Toward an Improved Theory of Rationality in Economics
Revue de Philosophie Economique, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2011
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 15 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Athens – Department of Philosophy & History of Science and University of Athens - Department of History & Philosophy of Science
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1,602
27.
The Empirical Evidence Against Utility Maximization
published with title changed to:" The Empirical Evidence Against Neoclassical Utility
Theory: A Review of the Literature," International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2012, pp. 366-414
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Al-Nafi and Ege University - Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences
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1,497
28.
Antitrust Conversations with Nobel Laureates
Concurrentialiste Review, 2018
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Downloads
1,491
29.
Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information
Public Choice (2019). doi: 10.1007/s11127-019-00684-6
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 23 Jan 2019
Last Revised: 12 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania
Downloads
1,475
30.
The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices
American Economic Review, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 2499-2529, 2013
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 24 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 07 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - Department of Economics and Georgetown University Law Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices
American Economic Review, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 2499-2529, 2013
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 24 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 07 Dec 2013
Downloads
1,455
The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3933
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 21 Sep 2012
Downloads
195
Downloads
1,455
31.
Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism Industry of India
Asian Microeconomic Review 2021, 1(1), 39-45
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 25 Oct 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Vivekanand Education Society's College of Arts, Science & Commerce and Vivekanand Education Society's College of Arts, Science & Commerce
Downloads
1,422
32.
A Behavioral Economics Approach to Sustainability Reporting
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 03 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 19 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Columbia University
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1,383
33.
Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 21 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania
There are 2 versions of this paper
Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 21 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022
Downloads
1,377
Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences
CESifo Working Paper No. 9073
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 18 May 2021
Downloads
227
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1,377
34.
The Knowledge Tax
82 University of Chicago Law Review 1981 (2015)
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 20 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads
1,353
35.
On the Descriptive Value of Loss Aversion in Decisions under Risk: Six Clarifications
Judgment and Decision Making, 8(3), pp. 214-235, 2013
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 06 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 11 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept. of Environmental Economics and Management and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management
Downloads
1,337
36.
Neighbors, Knowledge, and Nuggets: Two Natural Field Experiments on the Role of Incentives on Energy Conservation
Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2589269
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 04 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Chicago - Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Downloads
1,309
37.
News Sharing, Persuasion, and Spread of Misinformation on Social Networks
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 10 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
Office of Applied Research, Microsoft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1,303
38.
Consumption and Morality: Principles and Behavioral Framework in Islamic Economics
Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, Vol. 30, No. SI, 2017
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 30 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
State University of Ar-Raniry - Department of Islamic Banking
Downloads
1,277
39.
Risk Tolerance and Goals-Based Savings Behavior of Households: The Role of Financial Literacy
Journal of Personal Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 16 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Georgia, University of Georgia, University of Georgia - Department of Housing & Consumer Economics and University of Georgia
Downloads
1,274
40.
Preference for Simplicity
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 18 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 22 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics, Students
Downloads
1,182
41.
The Problem of ‘Freezing’ an Economy in a Pandemic
Cryoeconomics: How to Unfreeze an Economy (2020)
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 20 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University), RMIT University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University)
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1,155
42.
Game Theory and Cold War Rationality: A Review Essay
Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 208
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 12 Mar 2016
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Department of Economics
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1,101
43.
The Impostor Syndrome [A.K.A. 'Fake It Until You Make It']: A Case Study
Robert W. McGee: The Autobiography of an Outlier, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 24 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Fayetteville State University - Department of Accounting
Downloads
1,090
44.
Self-Confidence and Search
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2525
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 12 Jan 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Downloads
1,037
45.
Dual-promotion: Bragging Better by Promoting Peers
George Mason University School of Business Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 13 Jun 2022
Working Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania - Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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1,036
46.
What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 918
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 28 Jul 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Chicago, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
There are 2 versions of this paper
What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 918
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 28 Jul 2005
Downloads
1,015
What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market
NBER Working Paper No. w11892
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 18 Jan 2006
Last Revised: 31 Dec 2022
Downloads
151
Downloads
1,015
47.
Why Risk is Not Related to Return
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 02 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
Pine River Capital Management
Downloads
1,000
48.
A Theory of Social Identity with an Application to Redistribution
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
Downloads
995
49.
Behavioural Finance and the Study of the Irrational Financial Choices of Credit Card Users
Annales Universitatis Apulensis series Oeconomica, ISSN 1454-9409, Number 11/2009, Volume 1
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 14 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Istanbul University - Faculty of Business Management and Istanbul University - Faculty of Business Management
Downloads
989
50.
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2840
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 05 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Queensland University of Technology - School of Economics and Finance and University of Melbourne - Department of Economics
Downloads
988
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