Reto Foellmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1226016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reto Foellmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reto |
| FAMILY NAME | Foellmi |
| SIGNATURE | FOELLMI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0462-6003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes
This paper studies voter turnout and selective abstention on voting days with more than one election or referendum. We extend the rational choice model to a setting with multiple concurrent votes. The model is based on a voter’s net benefit, which includes a vote’s salience and information costs. It explains how the net benefit of different concurrent votes enters a voter’s utility function and thereby affects turnout and selective abstention, th…
Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution between 1981 and 2010
In the past twenty years, the share of top incomes in Switzerland has risen, while exhibiting large variations. Switzerland is similar to European countries for the top 1% but closer to the United States for higher top income groups. With the synthetic control method, we close a time gap in the tax data, exploiting the fact that Swiss cantons changed their tax system at different points in time. Using social security data, which cover all top lab…
Do Professionals Get It Right? Limited Attention and Risk‐taking Behaviour
Does information processing affect individual risk‐taking behaviour? This article provides evidence that professional athletes suffer from a left‐digit bias when dealing with signals about differences in performance. Using data from the highly competitive field of World Cup alpine skiing for the period of 1992–2014, we show that athletes misinterpret actual differences in race times by focusing on the leftmost digit, which results in increased ri…
Who gains from non-collusive corruption
Who gains from non-collusive corruption
Do Professionals Get It Right? Limited Attention and Risk‐taking Behaviour
Does information processing affect individual risk‐taking behaviour? This article provides evidence that professional athletes suffer from a left‐digit bias when dealing with signals about differences in performance. Using data from the highly competitive field of World Cup alpine skiing for the period of 1992–2014, we show that athletes misinterpret actual differences in race times by focusing on the leftmost digit, which results in increased ri…
Who gains from non-collusive corruption
Do Professionals Get It Right? Limited Attention and Risk‐taking Behaviour
Does information processing affect individual risk‐taking behaviour? This article provides evidence that professional athletes suffer from a left‐digit bias when dealing with signals about differences in performance. Using data from the highly competitive field of World Cup alpine skiing for the period of 1992–2014, we show that athletes misinterpret actual differences in race times by focusing on the leftmost digit, which results in increased ri…
Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution between 1981 and 2010
In the past twenty years, the share of top incomes in Switzerland has risen, while exhibiting large variations. Switzerland is similar to European countries for the top 1% but closer to the United States for higher top income groups. With the synthetic control method, we close a time gap in the tax data, exploiting the fact that Swiss cantons changed their tax system at different points in time. Using social security data, which cover all top lab…
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes
This paper studies voter turnout and selective abstention on voting days with more than one election or referendum. We extend the rational choice model to a setting with multiple concurrent votes. The model is based on a voter’s net benefit, which includes a vote’s salience and information costs. It explains how the net benefit of different concurrent votes enters a voter’s utility function and thereby affects turnout and selective abstention, th…
Economics (3 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 work) · Athletes (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Capital (architecture) (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Collusion (1 work) · Communication (1 work)