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Sandro Ambuehl
Researcher at University of Zurich
Publications - 25
Citations - 309
Sandro Ambuehl is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Incentive & Competence (human resources). The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 21 publications receiving 250 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandro Ambuehl include University of Toronto & Stanford University.
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Belief updating and the demand for information
Sandro Ambuehl,Shengwu Li +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that individuals underreact to increasing the informativeness of a signal, thus undervalue high-quality information, and that they disproportionately prefer information that may yield certainty, mainly due to non-standard belief updating.
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More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay Be Coercive and Repugnant?
TL;DR: In this paper, a vignette study on MTurk concerning participation in medical trials showed that a substantial minority of subjects concurred with the IRB's decision to disallow high incentives they deem coercive.
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The Effect of Financial Education on the Quality of Decision Making
TL;DR: The authors introduced a method for measuring the quality of financial decision making built around a notion of financial competence, which gauges the alignment between individuals' choices and those they would make if they properly understood their opportunities.
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Financial education, financial competence, and consumer welfare
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of financial competence, a measure of the extent to which individuals' financial choices align with those they would make if they properly understood their opportunity sets.
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The Ethics of Incentivizing the Uninformed: A Vignette Study
Sandro Ambuehl,Axel Ockenfels +1 more
TL;DR: Ambuehl et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that people with higher costs of information processing respond more to an increase in the incentive for a complex transaction, and decide to participate based on a worse understanding of its consequences.