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Step into action: how reminders shape engagement in fitness apps
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract Regular exercise offers well‐documented health benefits, and mobile applications are increasingly used to promote physical activity. In this study, we conduct a large‐scale randomized controlled trial with 20,187 users of the WeWard app in France to evaluate the effectiveness of different message framings and intervention durations on app ...
Beatrice Braut +2 more
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Set for Life: Old-Age Pensions Provided by Hospitals in Late-Medieval Amsterdam
Jahrbuch für WirtschaftsgeschichteHospitals were among the wealthiest organizations in medieval cities. Their directors managed portfolios consisting of real estate and financial instruments; as a result, they also handled large quantities of money.
Zuijderduijn Jaco
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Frailty and Risk Classification for Life Annuity Portfolios
Risks, 2016 Life annuities are attractive mainly for healthy people. In order to expand their business, in recent years, some insurers have started offering higher annuity rates to those whose health conditions are critical. Life annuity portfolios are then supposed
Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco
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Reference dependence and lottery participation
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We assume that lottery participants are poor relative to their target income. Reference dependence with loss aversion can render the marginal utility of income non‐monotonic in line with the Friedman–Savage hypothesis. As a result, lottery participation can be rationalized without invoking probability weighting.
Robertas Zubrickas
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Actuarial values calculated using the incomplete Gamma function
Statistica, 2013 The complete expectation-of-life for a person and the actuarial present value of continuous life annuities are defined by integrals. In all of them at least one of the factors is a survival function value ratio. If de Moivre’s law of mortality is chosen,
Giovanni Mingari Scarpello +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck +4 more
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Optimal Annuity Risk Management [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper studies the life-cycle consumption and portfolio choice problem taking account of annuity risk at retirement. The study allows for government-provided annuity income. Optimally, households allocate retirement wealth to nominal, inflation-linked and variable annuities, and condition this choice on the state of the economy.
Ralph S. J. Koijen +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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On the free boundary of an annuity purchase [PDF]
Finance and Stochastics, 2018 34 pages, 5 figures; improved ...
Tiziano De Angelis, Gabriele Stabile
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