The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on the presence of the disposition effect in a venture capital setting. It reveals that prior learning leads to better venture choices and confirms competition as the most efficient form of resource allocation and management. Chapter Two addresses the empirical finding of a negative relationship between income and charitable giving as a proportion of that income. As the first study to replicate this downward relationship in an experiment, it exposes income rank information as one of the factors causing the relationship. Using a unique dataset from...
In philanthropic research, much attention has been given to the impact of the actual costs of giving...
Several papers have documented that when subjects play with standard laboratory “endowments” they ma...
Charities often publicize generous contributions as a fund-raising strategy to encourage individuals...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and don...
Nonprofits play a pivotal role in society, and individual donations are the backbone of these organi...
Hundreds of billions of dollars are donated to charity by individuals each year. Despite this, relat...
In this dissertation we add two new experimental studies to the growing catalog of non-economic fact...
This dissertation presents three experimental studies with an emphasis on peer influence in people’s...
The purpose of this research is to analyze and evaluate the impact of financial and non-financial in...
The present PhD dissertation consists of three papers, organized in chapters, in the field of behavi...
Charity giving decisions are complex and often biased by people’s cognitive and affective processes;...
My dissertation uses game theoretical and experimental approaches to study how individual's behavior...
We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with income uncertainty and conditiona...
This dissertation studies the effectiveness of various non-monetary incentives in encouraging econom...
Despite the vast body of research on charitable giving and its drivers, no research has investigated...
In philanthropic research, much attention has been given to the impact of the actual costs of giving...
Several papers have documented that when subjects play with standard laboratory “endowments” they ma...
Charities often publicize generous contributions as a fund-raising strategy to encourage individuals...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and don...
Nonprofits play a pivotal role in society, and individual donations are the backbone of these organi...
Hundreds of billions of dollars are donated to charity by individuals each year. Despite this, relat...
In this dissertation we add two new experimental studies to the growing catalog of non-economic fact...
This dissertation presents three experimental studies with an emphasis on peer influence in people’s...
The purpose of this research is to analyze and evaluate the impact of financial and non-financial in...
The present PhD dissertation consists of three papers, organized in chapters, in the field of behavi...
Charity giving decisions are complex and often biased by people’s cognitive and affective processes;...
My dissertation uses game theoretical and experimental approaches to study how individual's behavior...
We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with income uncertainty and conditiona...
This dissertation studies the effectiveness of various non-monetary incentives in encouraging econom...
Despite the vast body of research on charitable giving and its drivers, no research has investigated...
In philanthropic research, much attention has been given to the impact of the actual costs of giving...
Several papers have documented that when subjects play with standard laboratory “endowments” they ma...
Charities often publicize generous contributions as a fund-raising strategy to encourage individuals...