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Keep Up With the Winners: Experimental Evidence on Risk Taking, Asset Integration, and Peer Effects
Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket; Zizzo, Daniel John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
experiment affects risk taking. We find some evidence of imitation of the risk taking behavior of others that is distinct from …
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Consistency in Simple vs. Complex Choices over the Life Cycle
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Combs, T. Dalton; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Employing a variant of GARP, we study consistency in aging by comparing the choices of younger adults (YA) and older adults (OA) in a 'simple', two-good and a `complex' three-good condition. We find that OA perform worse than YA in the complex condition but similar in the simple condition....
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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals
Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145435
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights … are reflected by the behavior of subjects in the laboratory and to what extent deviations from standard theory can be … agency theory is indeed useful to qualitatively predict how variations in the degree of uncertainty affect subjects' behavior …
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Myopic or Farsighted? An Experiment on Network Formation
Kirchsteiger, Georg; Mantovani, Marco; Mauleon, Ana; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854524
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Rational parasites
Benoit, Jean-Pierre; Galbiati, Roberto; Henry, Emeric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
consistent with the theoretical results: in the experiment, investment levels with and without legal protection are comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083356
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
A central insight of agency theory is that when a principal offers a contract to a privately informed agent, the … report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In … particular, we investigate settings with both exogenous and endogenous information structures. We find that theory is indeed a …
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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