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We study sequential parimutuel betting markets with asymmetrically informed bettors, usingan experimental approach. In one treatment, groups of eight participants play twenty repetitionsof a sequential betting game. The second treatment is identical, except that bettors are observedby other...
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The employment relationship is characterized by incomplete contracts. Labor contracts often take the form of a fixed wage without explicit performance incentives meaning that workers have a large degree of discretion over effort levels. As a consequence, an employee’s general jobattitude...
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Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been established as one prominentexplanation for the equity premium puzzle. In this … investment flexibility seems to be at least as relevant asfeedback frequency for the effects of myopic loss aversion. When …
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? Fairness norms mightplay an important role in wage-setting decisions. We will explore theoretically and experimentallypossible … fairness considerations of the involved parties. …
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Fairness like other social norms is usually stabilized by punishing norm deviations. Reward uncertainty, however … experiment determines endogenously whether unfair offers are detected andsanctionable. In our experiment a proposer and a …
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A two-persons bargaining problem often consists of initially incompatible demands that can be unilaterally reduced by sequential concessions. In a 2 x 2 x 2-factorial design we distinguish between reliable and unreliable concessions, between a static and dynamic settings and between symmetric...
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. Overall, observed behavior gives rise to a context dependent interpretation of inequality aversion and to Knez andCamerer …'s 1995 observation that subjects form `egocentric assessments of fairness'. …
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This paper investigates market failures due to strategic delays. We test experimentally a discrete model of dynamic investment, where two privately informed agents have an option to invest at the time of their choice in the presence of waiting costs. The equilibrium outcome of ourexperimental...
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the results of two experiments. The ¯rst implemented environmentfollows the standard procedures for the voluntary … suf-¯cient to induce cooperative outcomes. In the second experiment we introduce the pairwisecommitment mechanism and we … observe aggregate cooperation rates beyond those observedin the ¯rst experiment whatever the monitoring cost but also beyond …
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Arguably the most important campaign finance regulations in U.S. federal elections are limitsimposed on the amount that an individual or organization may donate to a federal campaign. Suchcontribution limits are advocated on two separate grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption,the...
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