Essays about: "viewpoint preference"

Found 3 essays containing the words viewpoint preference.

  1. 1. Reference Dependent Preference towards Risk : Evidence from the U.S. Professional Golf Tour

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ström Isak; [2019]
    Keywords : Behavioral Economics; Prospect Theory; Risk Preferences; Beteendeekonomi; Prospect Theory; Riskpreferenser;

    Abstract : The standing debate regarding how preferences should be defined is still evident in research today. Are they invariant to current endowment as a neoclassical practitioner would proclaim, or reference dependent as a behavioural economist would state? This theoretical discrepancy, regarding how preferences should be defined, when agents are experienced at what they do is found by List (2003) to be non-existing. READ MORE

  3. 2. Thinking and seeing for speaking : The viewpoint preference in Swedish/Japanese monolinguals and bilinguals

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Masako Hayakawa Thor; [2016]
    Keywords : Thinking for speaking; viewpoint preference; Linguistic relativity; Japanese; Swedish; bilinguals; monolinguals; subjective objective construal; cognition; verbal non-verbal task; perspektivpreferens; språkrelativitet; japanska; svenska; tvåspråkig; enspråkig; subjektiv objektiv tolkning; kognition; verbal icke-verbal uppgift;

    Abstract : “Linguistic relativity” has been studied for a long time. Many empirical studies have been conducted on cross-linguistic differences to find support for the influence of language on thought. READ MORE

  4. 3. The preference between salary increase and more vacation time

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för industriell ekonomi

    Author : Henric Löfqvist; Abdulwahab Barbouti; Masood Tariq; [2014]
    Keywords : Intrinsic motivation; vacation; salary; personnel retention; IT employees;

    Abstract : In order to attract and retain skilled personnel companies must compete with other employers in terms of job content, salaries and other benefits. Two ways of compensating employees are an addition to the base salary or an addition to the employee’s amount of vacation days of the same monetary value as the base salary increase. READ MORE