Investment cost estimates and investment decisions

Preliminary Controlling Investment Decisions: Hurdle Rates and Intertemporal Cost Allocation

Men's Reproductive Investment Decisions

Using questionnaire data completed by 170 men, we examine variation in paternal investment in relation to the trade-off between mating and parenting. We found that as men's self-perceived mate value increases, so does their mating effort, and in turn, as mating effort increases, paternal investment decreases. This study also simultaneously examined the influence on parental investment of men's ...

Modeling Ethanol Investment Decisions

Recently the support of biofuel production has been a politically sensitive topic. Politicians have pushed for support for fuel ethanol production as an environmentally friendly alternative to imported oil, as well as a way to boost farm profits and improve rural livelihoods. Several government policies actively promote ethanol production via tax incentives and mandates, and these policies are ...

Social identification and investment decisions

This paper investigates the role of social identification in investment decisions. Social identity is an aspect of self-image based on in-group preferences and a perception of belonging to a social group. We collected survey data from retail clients of the only two banks in the Netherlands that exclusively offer socially responsible investment products and savings accounts. Our data show that a...

Can herding improve investment decisions?

Existing models show that herding in decisions can cause significant information loss, inferior information aggregation and impaired decision making. However, we show that in a multi-stage decision setting with endogenous information production, herding on the initial decision can actually result in superior aggregate information and improved decisions. This is because the possibility of herdin...