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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8538 Vicente Cuñat
Mireia Giné
Maria Guadalupe
Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2016, 20 (5), 1799 - 1834)
G34, M52
8537 Alex Bryson
Richard B. Freeman
Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (1), 86-106 )
J24, J33, J54, J63, M52
8535 Tilman Drerup
Benjamin Enke
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models
While stock market expectations are among the most important primitives of portfolio choice models, their measurement has proved challenging for some respondents. We argue that the magnitude of ...
(published as: 'The precision of subjective data and the explanatory power of economic models' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 378-389)
C35, C51, G11
8534 Julian Conrads
Tommaso G. Reggiani
The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2017, 12 (3), 595-611)
D02, D83, C91
8533 Sebastian Kube
Sebastian Schaube
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Elina Khachatryan
Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents
Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.)
C90, D02, D62, D63, H41
8531 Vincent Bignon
Eve Caroli
Roberto Galbiati
Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification ...
(published as 'Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in Nineteenth Century France in: Economic Journal, 2016, 127 (595), 19 - 49)
K42, N33, R11
8530 Sarah Brown
Daniel Gray
Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects
This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well-being. Initially, the empirical analysis, based on a large nationally representative panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 17–36)
D14, I31, J28
8528 Peng Nie
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Xiaobo He
Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69)
I10, I15, J13, C14
8527 Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a ...
(revised version published as 'Beauty, Body Size and Wages: Evidence from a Unique Data Set ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 22, 24-34.)
D1, J1
8526 Xing (Michelle) Liu
Eva Sierminska
Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 6)
J71, J31, J2, J16
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