endowment effect

collocation in English

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endowment
noun
uk
/ɪnˈdaʊ.mənt/us
/ɪnˈdaʊ.mənt/
money that is given to a college, hospital, etc. in order to provide it with an income, or the giving of ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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One possible association-based explanation treats theendowmenteffectas a phenomenon closely related to pride.
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Redistribution from young to old in these systems produces similar aggregate capital-labor behavior to theendowmenteffect.
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The problem is that observed asymmetries cannot be attributed convincingly toendowmenteffecttheory, given the existence of competing alternative theories related to uncontrolled field variables.
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We have heard much about the high profits that banks have had because of what is called theendowmenteffectof current accounts.
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However, this assumption has been shown in repeated experiments to be incorrect because of theendowmenteffect.
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Status quo bias interacts with other non-rational cognitive processes such as loss aversion, existence bias,endowmenteffect, longevity, mere exposure, and regret avoidance.
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The authors also ruled out the explanation that lack of experience with trading would lead to theendowmenteffectby conducting repeated markets.
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Those in the afterwards condition rated it more highly ("endowmenteffect").
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This ruled out income effects as an explanation for theendowmenteffect.
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This argument, supported by empirical results over a series of experiments, explains theendowmenteffectsimply.
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Anomalous behavior like overestimating low-probability high-severity events, preference reversals, endowment effects, loss aversion, contextdependent preferences over goods, risk, time and space undercut the rational underpinnings of environmental and development policy.
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Topics of interest include entitlement perception, heuristic based decision-making, anomalous behaviors and decision biases, belief formation, preference reversal, time preferences, risk avoidance/acceptance, endowment effects, fairness expectations, and framing effects.
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Endowment effects are traditionally explained as resulting from the investment of value based on ownership.
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