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  • SOEPpapers 564 / 2013

    Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

    In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic desires and alternatives serving intrinsic needs. Thereby the neglect of asymmetries in adaptation is proposed ...

    2013| Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Check Verbraucherpolitik und Verbraucherbeteiligung: Empfehlungen für eine evidenzbasierte Verbraucherpolitik

    The paper discusses the opportunities for an empirically grounded decision support system as an instrument for independent and scientifically based consumer policy consulting. To date, consumer policy is dominated by the information paradigm and the leitbild of the rational, sovereign and information-seeking consumer. Yet, both everyday practice and research in behavioural economics show that this ...

    In: Journal für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit 8 (2013), 1/2, S. 61-66 | Kornelia Hagen, Hans-W. Micklitz, Andreas Oehler, Lucia A. Reisch, Christoph Strünck
  • SOEPpapers 499 / 2012

    Validating an Ultra-Short Survey Measure of Patience

    This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population.

    2012| Thomas Vischer, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Jürgen Schupp, Uwe Sunde, Gert G. Wagner
  • SOEPpapers 621 / 2013

    Savings and Consumption When Children Move Out

    Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops after a child moves out of a household, while at the same time, per capita consumption increases significantly. Parents approximately upgrade their personal lifestyle up to the level of childless peers after all children are gone and save only a small ...

    2013| Simon Rottke, Alexander Klos
  • SOEPpapers 611 / 2013

    To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

    Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive to income than older households. Family structure plays a significant role in explaining cross-country differences ...

    2013| Eva Sierminska, Karina Doorley
  • Data Documentation 70 / 2013

    Preparation of Data from the New SOEP Consumption Module: Editing, Imputation, and Smoothing

    This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset "hconsum." In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the household questionnaire. This documentation discusses several methodological challenges of the new module and suggests ...

    2013| Jan Marcus, Rainer Siegers, Markus M. Grabka
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Implications of Mandatory Registration of Mobile Phone Users in Africa

    Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations introduced across Africa could also have a negative impact on future growth. Since 2006, the majority of countries ...

    In: Telecommunications Policy 36 (2012), 8, S. 608-620 | Nicola Jentzsch
  • Externe Monographien

    The Strategic Use of Private Quality Standards in Food Supply Chains

    Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, 2012, 46 S.
    (DICE Discussion Paper ; 62)
    | Vanessa von Schlippenbach, Isabel Teichmann
  • Diskussionspapiere 1220 / 2012

    Does Consumption Decline at Retirement? Evidence from Repeated Cross-Section Data for Germany

    The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader measures of consumption than food. Using repeated cross-section data for Germany, this paper analyzes the ...

    2012| Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
  • Externe Monographien

    Does Consumption Decline at Retirement? Evidence from Repeated Cross-Section Data for Germany

    The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader measures of consumption than food. Using repeated crosssection data for Germany, this paper analyzes the ...

    Berlin: Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss., 2012, 24 S.
    (Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2012,14)
    | Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
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