infonet-economy

The systematic integration of sustainable development into Higher Education curricula remains a challenge for many universities. Among other aspects, faculty motivation to include sustainable development into their courses seems to be crucial. However, empirical research regarding faculty motivation in the context of sustainable development is scarce. Based on the motivational...

We introduce a wild bootstrap algorithm for the approximation of the sampling distribution of pair or one-to-many propensity score matching estimators. Unlike the conventional iid bootstrap, the proposed wild bootstrap approach does not construct bootstrap samples by randomly resampling from the observations with uniform weights. Instead, it fixes the covariates and constructs the...

Midbrain dopamine neurons encode reward prediction errors. In this issue of Neuron, Takahashi et al. (2016) show that the ventral striatum provides dopamine neurons with prediction information specific to the timing, but not the quantity, of reward, suggesting a surprisingly nuanced neural implementation of reward prediction errors.

Increased responding to drug-associated stimuli (cue reactivity) and an inability to tolerate delayed gratification (reward impulsivity) have been implicated in the development and maintenance of drug addiction. Whereas data from animal studies suggest that both the dopamine and opioid system are involved in these two reward-related processes, their role in humans is less clear....

This research proposes Conditional Currency Hedging based on FX risk factors to reduce total portfolio risk of given stock, bond or commodity portfolios. In our employed sample, a conditional currency hedging framework based on implied FX volatility results in lower variance of a global equity portfolio than achieved by either no, full or unconditional mean-variance hedging, both in...

Risk equalization mechanisms mitigate insurers’ incentives to practice risk selection. On the other hand, incentives to limit healthcare spending can be distorted by risk equalization, particularly when risk equalization payments depend on realized costs instead of expected costs. In addition, cost based risk equalization mechanisms may incentivize health insurers to distort the...

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