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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and … of stronger persistence in productivity than in innovation. …

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Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry

Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory public-good game with voluntary contributions and economies of scale, we construct a situation in which expanding a group’s size yields potential efficiency gains, but only...

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Justice under Uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013

choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when …

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 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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More than Thirty Years of Ultimatum Bargaining Experiments: Motives, Variations, and a Survey of the Recent Literature

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - CESifo - 2013

subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …

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Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - CESifo - 2013

We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic concerns, and find compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis in the behavior of participants who send and respond to others’ statements of confidence about how well they have...

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Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence from Glucose and Depletion Interventions

Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - CESifo - 2014

Recent developments in economic theory model intertemporal choice decisions as problems of restraining one’s natural impulse to consume today. We use interventions that have been shown in the psychology literature to affect impulse control to examine whether this is indeed the case for...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014

first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …

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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals

Mühlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - CESifo - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …

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