5 papers
Emotional driving: Reference-dependent emotions and risky driving behavior after sporting events
Travis Richardson, Steve Bickley, Ho Fai Ben Chan +3
Using average vehicle speed data in 10-minute increments at the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) location level, along with precise crash timing and location information, we analyze d…
Trimming of extreme votes and favoritism: Evidence from the field
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
Despite a large body of theoretical literature on voting mechanisms, there is no documented evidence from real-world panel evaluations about the effect of trimming the extreme vote…
Racial bias, colorism, and overcorrection
Kenneth Colombe, Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill +1
This paper examines whether increased awareness can affect racial bias and colorism. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the widespread publicity of Price and Wolfers (201…
Varying reference-point salience
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
The salience of reference points may theoretically influence the loss aversion mechanism in effort provision. However, we still lack a direct test from real competitive settings th…
Suspense and Surprise in European Football
Raphael Flepp, Tim Pawlowski, Travis Richardson
A key criterion for evaluating sports competitions is their attractiveness to consumers. In this paper, we propose using match-level suspense and surprise, which capture the entert…