Johanna Mollerstrom

TL;DR: Evidence indicates that social frames enter peopleʼs beliefs rather than their preferences, which is inconsistent with the hypothesis that the Community label triggers a desire to cooperate, but consistent with the hypotheses thatSocial frames are coordination devices.

TL;DR: This paper showed that the global savings rates did not show a robust upward trend during the relevant period, and that if there had been a global savings glut there should have been a large investment boom in the countries that imported capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which people are misinformed about their relative position in the income distribution and the effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs is investigated. But the results show that people with political preferences are more likely to view taxes as distortive and believe that it is personal effort rather than luck that is most influential for individual economic success.

TL;DR: This paper found that a majority misperceive their position in the income distribution and believe that they are poorer, relative to others, than they actually are, and they then inform a subsample about their true relative income and find that individuals who are richer than they initially thought demand less redistribution.

TL;DR: It is found that men who experience a greater increase in bioactive testosterone take on more risk, an association that remains when controlling for whether the participant won the competition, and individual differences in testosterone reactivity, rather than the act of winning or losing, influence financial risk-taking.