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Tra i Leoni: Revealing the preferences behind a superstition,
Giovanna M. Invernizzi, Joshua B. Miller, Tommaso Coen, Martin Dufwenberg and Luiz Edgard R. Oliveira, in Journal of Economic Psychology (2021)
Keywords: Superstition; Conformity; Field experiment; Lab-in-the-field;

God games: An experimental study of uncertainty, superstition, and cooperation,
Aidin Hajikhameneh and Laurence R. Iannaccone, in Games and Economic Behavior (2023)
Keywords: Religion; Superstition; Uncertainty; Collective action; Experiments;

A study of numerological superstitions in the apartments market,
Elena Pokryshevskaya and Evgeny Antipov, in Economics Bulletin (2015)
Keywords: superstitions, residential real estate, lucky number, unlucky number, Wilcoxon test

Superstition and stock price crash risk,
Min Bai, Limin Xu, Chia-Feng (Jeffrey) Yu and Ralf Zurbruegg, in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2020)
Keywords: Firm-specific stock price crash risk; Superstition; Investor overreaction;

Anti-Superstition Bill,
Maharashtra Cabinet Sectretariat, from eSocialSciences (2013)
Keywords: evil, superstition, social awakening and awareness, society, black magic, supernatural, Maharashtra, society

Superstitions surrounding the choice of wedding date in Italy: What has changed since the beginning of the economic development process to the present?,
Gabriele Ruiu and Marco Breschi, in Journal of Population Research (2017)
Keywords: Marriage, Seasonality, Superstition, Religion, Culture

Dragon year superstition, birth timing, and neonatal health outcomes,
Cheng Huang, Shiying Zhang, Qingguo Zhao and Yan Lin, in China Economic Review (2021)
Keywords: Dragon superstition; Timing of births; Neonatal health; China;

Lucky issuance: The role of numerological superstitions in irrational return premiums,
Pei-Shih Weng, in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (2018)
Keywords: Return premium; Numerological superstitions; Individual investors;

Superstition and “lucky” apartments: Evidence from transaction-level data,
Matthew Shum, Wei Sun and Guangliang Ye, in Journal of Comparative Economics (2014)
Keywords: Superstition; Real estate market; Apartment prices;

Numerological superstitions and market-wide herding: Evidence from China,
Yueting Cui, Konstantinos Gavriilidis, Bartosz Gebka and Vasileios Kallinterakis, in International Review of Financial Analysis (2024)
Keywords: Superstition; Herding; Noise; Retail investors; China;

Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition,
Naci Mocan and Luiza Pogorelova, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2014)
Keywords: beliefs, Europe, superstition, education, religion, praying

Superstitions Regarding Animals: mutation and reincarnation in a Thai context,
Parinyaporn Sinnoo, from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (2016)
Keywords: Superstitions, animal mutation, reincarnation, beliefs in animals in a Thai context

Anti-Superstition Legislation,
Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti Mans, from eSocialSciences (2013)
Keywords: superstition, Maharashtra State, government, India, civilized, human societies, civilized, educating people, dowry, society, social reformers and well-wishers, harmful superstitious beliefs, Maharashtra, magical rites, supernatural power

THE VALUE OF CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS IN MALAYSIA: EVIDENCE FROM CAR PLATE AUCTIONING,
Woei-Chyuan Wong, Nur Adiana Hiau Abdullah and Hock-Eam Lim, in The Singapore Economic Review (SER) (2019)
Keywords: Superstitions, auction, consumer psychology, behavioral economics, peer effects

The Effects of Animistic Thinking, Animistic Cues, and Superstitions on Brand Responses on Social Media,
Malgorzata Karpinska-Krakowiak and Martin Eisend, in Journal of Interactive Marketing (2021)
Keywords: Animistic thinking; Animism; Animistic cues; Social media; Superstitions;

The effects of superstition on firms' investment behavior: Evidence from Vietnam, an irreligious country✰,
Dai Van Pham, in Journal of Comparative Economics (2024)
Keywords: Superstition; Calamitous ages; Directors’ age; Two-stage difference; Firms’ investment;

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore,
Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, Ivan Png, Tien Foo Sing and Wei-Kang Wong, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2016)
Keywords: superstition, conspicuous spending, real estate, prices, behavioral economics

The impact of numerical superstition on the final digit of stock price,
Wen-Chyan Ke, Hueiling Chen, Hsiou-Wei W. Lin and Yo-Chia Liu, in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2017)
Keywords: Numerical superstition; Lucky number; Unlucky number; Bear market effect; Institutional investor trading;

An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition,
Peter Leeson, in The Review of Austrian Economics (2012)
Keywords: Austrian-Chicago synthesis, law and economics, Coase, Posner, Superstition, Beliefs, Economic analysis of law, B53, D8, K00, K49, Z12,

Religious Revival among the Zhuang People in China: Practising “Superstition” and Standardizing a Zhuang Religion,
Ya-ning Kao, in Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell (2014)
Keywords: China; superstition; religious revival; Zhuang people; Nong Zhigao; Buluotuo

Superstition effects versus cohort effects: is it bad luck to be born in the year of the fire horse in Japan?,
Hiroyuki Yamada, in Review of Economics of the Household (2013)
Keywords: Superstition, Cohort, Fire horse, Marriage, I31, J11, J12, J16, N35,

Cultural Superstitions and Residential Real Estate Prices: Transaction-level Evidence from the US Housing Market,
Brad Humphreys, Adam Nowak and Yang Zhou, from Department of Economics, West Virginia University (2016)
Keywords: Superstition; property value; supervised learning; hedonic price model

Chinese Superstition and Real Estate Prices: Transaction-level Evidence from the US Housing Market,
Brad Humphreys, Adam Nowak and Yang Zhou, from Department of Economics, West Virginia University (2017)
Keywords: Superstition; supervised learning; hedonic price model; name matching

Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China,
Naci Mocan and Han Yu, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020)
Keywords: self-esteem, investment, zodiac, superstition, education, test score, dragon, China

Organizational costs of compensating for mind-body dissonance through conspiracies and superstitions,
Li Huang and Jennifer Whitson, in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2020)
Keywords: Mind-body dissonance; Conspiracy; Superstition; Illusory pattern perception; Compensatory control; Trusting behavior; Decision-making;

Superstition and Risk Taking: Evidence from “Zodiac Year” Beliefs in China,
Raymond Fisman, Wei Huang, Bo Ning, Yue Pan, Jiaping Qiu and Yongxiang Wang, in Management Science (2023)
Keywords: risk aversion, innovation, mergers & acquisitions, volatility, household finance, superstition, China, zodiac year

The impacts of superstition on risk preferences and beliefs: Evidence from the Chinese zodiac year,
Nan Wu, Xiaomeng Zhang and Wenyu Zhou, in China Economic Review (2023)
Keywords: Zodiac year; Superstition; Risk preference; Pessimism; Experiment; Stock investment; Insurance purchase;

The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month,
Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu and Jin-Tan Liu, from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (2019)
Keywords: Superstition, false beliefs, health, risky activities, health-care utilization, mortality, fertility, birth outcomes.

The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month,
Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu and Jin-Tan Liu, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2019)
Keywords: superstition, false beliefs, health, risky activities, health-care utilization, mortality, fertility, birth outcomes

Promoting organ donation through the ‘intensity of discussions’ with next of kin: role of superstition, taboo of death and personality variables,
Sondes Zouaghi, Inès Chouk and Sophie Rieunier, from HAL (2015)
Keywords: altruism,discussion with next of kin,extraversion,organ donation,social marketing,superstition,taboo of death

Superstition and attitudes towards restoration of a mining-degraded forest reserve: Evidence from Ghana,
Lilian Arthur, Godwin Kofi Vondolia and Isaac Dasmani, in Forest Policy and Economics (2024)
Keywords: Bonsa River Forest Reserve; Choice experiment; Superstition; Forest restoration; Illegal mining; Ghana;

Economic implications of superstition and the defacement of the currency notes: Nigeria experience,
Essien D. Essien, in African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development (2014)
Keywords: superstition; cultural beliefs; currency mutilation; social construction; indigenous resources; judgement; choices; economic implications; causal influence; Naira; Nigeria; currency notes; superstitious beliefs; magical thinking; currency disfigurement; currency defacement.

Les superstitions du consommateur: définition, mesure et impact sur le comportement d'achat,
Eva Delacroix and Valérie Guillard, from HAL (2009)
Keywords: magical thinking,measurement scale,consumer behavior,superstition,pensée magique,pessimisme superstitieux,échelle de mesure,comportement du consommateur

Favoriser le don d’organes grâce à « l’intensité de la discussion » avec les proches: rôle de la superstition, du tabou de la mort et de variables de personnalité,
Sondes Zouaghi, Inès Chouk and Sophie Rieunier, from HAL (2015)
Keywords: altruisme,discussion avec les proches,don d’organes,extraversion,marketing social,superstition,tabou de la mort

Determinants of superstition,
Benno Torgler, in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics) (2007)

The Value of Superstitions,
Tarvis Ng, Terence Tai Leung Chong and Xin Du, from Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics (2009)

Superstition challenged,
Philip Ball, in Nature (2009)

Selection superstitions,
Adrian Furnham, from Palgrave Macmillan (2008)
Keywords: Colour Discrimination, Human Side, Trait Indicator, Time Feeder, Taxonomic Theory

Sassywood,
Peter Leeson and Christopher Coyne, in Journal of Comparative Economics (2012)
Keywords: Sassywood; Liberia; Ordeals; Superstition;

Superstition and financial decision making,
David Hirshleifer, Ming Jian and Huai Zhang, from University Library of Munich, Germany (2014)
Keywords: Finance; Asset pricing; Investment

Superstition and Financial Decision Making,
David Hirshleifer, Ming Jian and Huai Zhang, in Management Science (2018)
Keywords: asset pricing; information and market efficiency; international financial markets

SUPERSTITION IN THE HOUSING MARKET,
Nicole Fortin, Andrew Hill and Jeff Huang, in Economic Inquiry (2014)

When superstition displaces science,
Martin Gardner, in Nature (1997)

Vanity, superstition and auction price,
Chi-Keung Woo and Raymond H. F. Kwok, in Economics Letters (1994)

MODERNIZATION, SUPERSTITION, AND CULTURAL CHANGE,
Riccardo Pelizzo, Daulet Turganov and Nygmetzhan Kuzenbayev, in World Affairs (2023)

Superstition and Rational Learning,
Drew Fudenberg and David Levine, in American Economic Review (2006)

Superstition and Rational Learning,
Drew Fudenberg and David Levine, from Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (2006)

Superstition and Rational Learning,
Drew Fudenberg and David Levine, from David K. Levine (2005)

Superstition and Rational Learning,
David Levine and Drew Fudenberg, from Harvard University Department of Economics (2006)

OVERCONFIDENCE, OMENS AND EMOTIONS: RESULTS FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT,
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa, from Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF (2013)
Keywords: Expectations, Grade, Overconfidence, Emotions, Superstition

Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck,
Jan Fidrmuc and Juan de Dios Tena, from CESifo (2014)
Keywords: superstition, employment, labor market, marriage

Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs,
Daniel Araujo, Bladimir Carrillo and Breno Sampaio, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2021)
Keywords: culture, pastoralism, persistence, superstition, witchcraft

Superstition, Ethics, and Transformative Consumer Research,
Stuart Vyse, in Journal of the Association for Consumer Research (2018)

La superstition: définition et mesure,
Eva Delacroix and Valérie Guillard, from HAL (2012)
Keywords: consumer behavior,comportement du consommateur,Marketing sensoriel

Chinese superstition in US commodity trading,
Richard Chung, Ali F. Darrat and Bin Li, in Applied Economics Letters (2014)

Equilibrium Effects of Superstition in the Housing Market,
Jiawei Chen and Matthew Shum, in The Japanese Economic Review (2019)

Equilibrium Effects of Superstition in The Housing Market,
Jiawei Chen and Matthew Shum, in The Japanese Economic Review (2019)

Superstition, family planning, and human development,
Quy-Toan Do and Tung Phung, from The World Bank (2006)
Keywords: Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Youth and Governance,Adolescent Health,Population Policies,Gender and Social Development

Women’s Perceptions of the Causes of Maternal Mortality: Qualitative Evidence From Nsukka, Nigeria,
Ugochukwu Simeon Asogwa, Oluwaseyi John Jemisenia and Nicholas Uchechukwu Asogwa, in SAGE Open (2022)
Keywords: beliefs; culture; maternal mortality; superstitions; qualitative

The Rationality of Oaths in Armed Struggle: A Dynamic Model of Commitment and the Mau Mau Insurgency (1952–1956),
Yuan Hsiao and Steven Pfaff, in Journal of Economics, Management and Religion (JEMAR) (2023)
Keywords: Oaths, superstition, commitment mechanisms, collective action, insurgency

“Lucky” numbers, unlucky consumers,
Zili Yang, in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics) (2011)
Keywords: Superstition; Retail price; Chinese economy; Consumer behavior;

Kissing the mezuzah and cognitive performance: Is there an observable benefit?,
Erez Siniver and Gideon Yaniv, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2015)
Keywords: Mezuzah kissing; Good luck charm; Superstition;

Evolution of social norms and correlated equilibria,
Bryce Morsky and Erol Akçay, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)
Keywords: social norms, correlated equilibrium, cooperation, coordination, superstitions

Auspicious birth dates among Chinese in California,
Douglas Almond, Christine Pal Chee, Maria Micaela Sviatschi and Nan Zhong, in Economics & Human Biology (2015)
Keywords: Superstition; Chinese; Eight; California; Birth date;

Witchcraft beliefs as a cultural legacy of the Atlantic slave trade: Evidence from two continents,
Boris Gershman, in European Economic Review (2020)
Keywords: Culture; Persistence; Slave trade; Slavery; Superstition; Witchcraft;

Witchcraft beliefs and the erosion of social capital: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond,
Boris Gershman, in Journal of Development Economics (2016)
Keywords: Culture; Persistence; Social capital; Superstition; Trust; Witchcraft;

Does fortune favor dragons?,
Noel Johnson and John Nye, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2011)
Keywords: Family Planning Human Capital Superstition Preference formation

Does fortune favor dragons?,
Noel Johnson and John Nye, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2011)
Keywords: Family Planning; Human Capital; Superstition; Preference formation;

Gypsy law,
Peter Leeson, in Public Choice (2013)
Keywords: Gypsies, Superstition, Private order, Self-governance, Anarchy,

Self-confirming equilibrium and the Lucas critique,
Drew Fudenberg and David Levine, in Journal of Economic Theory (2009)
Keywords: Lucas Critique Self-confirming equilibrium Superstitions

Overconfidence, omens and gender heterogeneity: Results from a field experiment,
Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa, in Journal of Economic Psychology (2014)
Keywords: Expectations; Grade; Overconfidence; Gender differences; Emotions; Superstition;

Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Social Capital: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond,
Boris Gershman, from American University, Department of Economics (2015)
Keywords: Culture, Persistence, Social capital, Superstition, Trust, Witchcraft

The cost of a lucky price,
Kwong Wing Chau, Danika Wright and Ervi Liusman, from European Real Estate Society (ERES) (2018)
Keywords: behavioral economics; House Prices; Price endings; Superstition

CROW IN THE KALMYK FOLKLORE: SUPERSTITIONS, SPELLS, FAIRY TALES,
T. G. Basangova, in Dagestan State Pedagogical University. Journal. Social and Humanitarian Sciences (2018)

Tra i Leoni: Revealing the Preferences Behind a Superstition,
Giovanna Invernizzi, Joshua Benjamin Miller, Tommaso Coen, Martin Dufwenberg and Luiz Edgard R. Oliveira, from Center for Open Science (2019)

Emotion, fear and superstition in the New Zealand stockmarket,
Glenn Boyle, Andrew Hagan, R. Seini O'Connor and Nick Whitwell, in New Zealand Economic Papers (2004)

Superstitions and stock trading: some new evidence,
Richard Chung, Ali F. Darrat and Bin Li, in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2014)

Estimating the superstition value: why not decomposition analysis?,
Hock-Eam Lim, Woei-Chyuan Wong and Nur Adiana Hiau Abdullah, in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2023)

Conditioned Superstition: Desire for Control and Consumer Brand Preferences,
Eric J. Hamerman and Gita V. Johar, in Journal of Consumer Research (2013)

Superstitions, street traffic, and subjective well-being,
Michael Anderson, Fangwen Lu, Yiran Zhang, Jun Yang and Ping Qin, in Journal of Public Economics (2016)
Keywords: Congestion; Happiness; Value of travel time; Value of reliability;

Superstitions, Street Traffic, and Subjective Well-Being,
Michael Anderson, Fangwen Lu, Yiran Zhang, Jun Yang and Ping Qin, from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015)

Emotion, Fear and Superstition in the New Zealand Stockmarket,
Glenn Boyle, Andrew Hagan and R. Seini O'Connor, from Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (2004)

Superstitions and Civilian Displacement: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict,
Oliver Ross Kaplan, from The World Bank (2022)

Superstitious Ritual Behavior in Sports: A Comparative Study among Various Athletes,
Ashoke Mukherjee and Abdul Sarjen Shaikh, in Journal of Sports Research (2022)
Keywords: Superstitious behavior, Rituals, Athletes, Sports performance, Superstitions, Effectiveness.

Croyances superstitieuses en Tunisie: quel impact pour les stratégies de communication des entreprises ?,
Soraya Zouari, Emmanuèle Gardair and Norchène Ben Dahmane Mouelhi, from HAL (2016)
Keywords: croyances superstitieuses,"rituels superstitieux",stratégies de communication,"superstition".

Belief in ghost month can help prevent drowning deaths: A natural experiment on the effects of cultural beliefs on risky behaviours,
Chiang-Hsing Yang, Yu-Tung Huang, Craig Janes, Kuan-Chia Lin and Tsung-Hsueh Lu, in Social Science & Medicine (2008)
Keywords: Taiwan Cultural beliefs Superstition Injury prevention Risk compensation Drowning

Oracles,
Peter Leeson, in Rationality and Society (2014)
Keywords: Azande; conflict; correlated equilibrium; oracles; self-governance; superstition

The Psychological Benefits of Superstitious Rituals in Top Sport,
Michaéla Schippers and Paul van Lange, from Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2005)
Keywords: Locus of Control, Psychological Tension, Ritual Commitment, Superstition, Top Sport

The economic origins of the evil eye belief,
Boris Gershman, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2015)
Keywords: Culture; Envy; Evil eye belief; Inequality; Institutions; Superstition;

Business norm versus norm-nudge as a contract-enforcing mechanism: Evidence from a real marketplace,
Haimanti Bhattacharya and Subhasish Dugar, in European Economic Review (2022)
Keywords: Norm-nudge; Moral suasion; Superstition; Cheating; Field experiment;