Margaret Samahita: Wishful thinking about mood effect (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:30

There is increasing acceptance of the role played by mood in decision-making. However, the evidence of mood effect in the field, as proxied by external factors such as weather and weekday, is limited....

Noemi Peter: Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution and by experimental task (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:00

This paper focuses on the relationship between experimentally measured willingness to compete and field data. Our sample consists of more than 1500 Swiss compulsory school students from the whole ability...

Andrea Weber : Free Mobility of Labor - How are neighboring labor markets affected by the EU Eastern enlargement? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

13:00

In recent years, there has been growing opposition against the principle of free movement of labor within the EU. Criticism is often based on the belief that immigrants hurt residents' employment opportunities....

Julie Chytilova: Anti-social Behavior in Groups (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:30

This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale...

Rostislav Staněk: Social Capital and Mobility: An Experimental Study (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

(with Ondřej Krčál and Štěpán Mikula)

Theoretical models of social capital (David et al., 2010; Bräuninger and Tolciu, 2011) provide an explanation for the different outcomes of integration efforts documented...

Ondřej Krčál: Do People Prefer Inefficient Rules Over Discretion? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

(with Rostislav Staněk and Katarína Čellárová)

When lawmakers create laws, they must decide not only on the substance but also the form of the law. The choice of the legal form may be described as a choice...

Jan Řezáč: Retirement Savings of the Self Employed - Experimental Desing (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

14:00

Calculation of retirement savings shows that vulnerable subgroup of the self-employed does not save enough to cover their pensions at an acceptable level. Their status in the Czech tax and savings system...

Michal Jirásek: Neither more nor less: Responsiveness to performance feedback and subsequent performance (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

12:00

In spite of certain contradictory findings and missing details on the process itself, performance feedback literature can largely explain why and when the organization prefers change or rigidity. While...