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dichotomy. Our own experiment is the first to look beyond 4th order risk preferences and we examine risk attitudes at even …
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This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity—aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory—to social welfare measurement. We suggest a new notion of equivalent income, the income...
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This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability …
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Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people’s attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...
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on this unique natural experiment, the existence of emphasis framing effects is tested for and their determinants are …
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consistent in revealing that groups behave closer to the game-theoretical assumption of rationality and selfishness than …
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The weak rationality principle is not an empirical statement but a heuristic rule of how to proceed in social sciences …-foundation and, therefore, employ the rationality assumption in economic models. Then, with reference to the ‘bounded rationality … a part of the rationality assumption. We conclude with some remarks on handling the problems of ‘free will’ as well as …
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We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding … and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations) in a repeated public goods experiment. The results provide …
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Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people will be able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient...
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first, low-cost pass at empirical evaluation, we conduct an experiment among farmers in the Ethiopian highlands, a region …
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