Search for dissertations about: "intertemporal choices"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words intertemporal choices.
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1. Beyond the imminent future : on the subject of risky and 'riskless' intertemporal choices
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2. Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
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3. Essays in Public Finance and Behavioral Economics
Abstract : Essay I: I study how individuals adjust their labor supply in response to a year with tax free income. Due to a transformation from a retroactive to a pay-as-you-earn tax system, income earned on the Icelandic labor market in 1987 was never taxed. READ MORE
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4. Portfolio-based segmentation and consumer behavior : empirical evidence and methodological issues
Abstract : Recent work in the area of retail financial services marketing almost invariably cite the deregulation of national and international financial markets as a major reason as to why financial institutions have a need for better knowledge of their customers' behaviors and needs. Among the most sought-after information are better ways to segment and target the market, that is, how do groups of households behave with regards to their savings and investments, why do they behave in certain ways, how can we reach them and how do they respond to marketing activities? In this thesis we will attempt to shed light on some salient aspects of the first two of these four questions. READ MORE
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5. Self-Control, Financial Well-Being, and Motivated Reasoning : Essays in Behavioral Finance
Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to improve our understanding of how individual differences in intuitive and analytic decision making are associated with people’s behavior as well as their well-being. The first three essays investigate, in turn, how self-control—a typical System 2 driven ability—correlates with financial behavior, financial well-being, and affective forecasting ability. READ MORE