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Aspiration Levels and Educational Choices<br>An experimental study

Page, Lionel; Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

experiment in which they had to perform a task over fifteen stages grouped in three blocks or levels. In order to continue … through the experiment, a minimum level of success was required at the end of each level. Rewards were dependent on the final …, participants in the loss framing group choose to go further in the experiment. There was also a significant and interesting gender …

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Appels d'offres et enchères renversées : Résultats d'expériences

Richelle, Yves; Robert, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

Ce travail fait suite au rapport intitulé « Appels d'offres et enchères ouvertes : Enjeux de design et propositions » rédigé par Y. Richelle, J. Robert et R. Gérin-Lajoie qui, d'une part, met en évidence les problèmes liés à l'utilisation des procédures actuelles et, d'autre part,...

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Social Exchange and Risk and Ambiguity Preferences

Engle, John; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Laszlo, Sonia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

We present an experiment in which we test for the effect of participating in a social exchange exercise on revealed …

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Global Security Policies Against Terrorism and the Free Riding Problem: An Experimental Approach

Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David; Mirza, Daniel; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

The World Trade Center attack has shed light on the urgent need to implement preventing measures against terrorism and to enhance cooperation in the global security system for all countries. However, international coordination cannot be taken for granted. It is often ineffective and likely to...

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Competitive Insurance Markets and Adverse Selection in the Lab

Riahi, Dorra; Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

binary lottery procedure. The results reveal a partial crowding out of low risks in the first experiment. Crowding out is not … eliminated in the second experiment and it is not even significantly reduced. Finally, instead of the predicted separating …

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Keep it Down: An Experimental Test of the Truncated Uniform Price Auction

Doyon, Maurice; Rondeau, Daniel; Mbala, Richard - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

The introduction of a centralized institution for trading production rights in quota-regulated agricultural sectors can dramatically improve the flow of information among market pareticipants and increase efficiency. On the other hand, prevailing conditions in these small markets can provide...

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Learning-by-Doing in an Ambiguous Environment

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Laszlo, Sonia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

We experimentally test whether risk aversion or ambiguity aversion can explain decisions in a learning-by-doing game. We first measure subjects' preferences toward risk and ambiguity, and then use these measures to predict behavior in the game. We find that ambiguity averse subjects pay more...

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Strategically Planned Behavior in Public Good Experiments

Keser, Claudia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000

Subjects submitted strategies for playing a public good game. The strategies interacted with each other in a computer simulation. They could be revised and resubmitted for a second and a third simulation round. The strategies' average contribution to the public good increased from one simulation...

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Can Corruption Be Studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment

Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

developed country, to where it matters the most, the field in a developing country. In our experiment a candidate proposes a …

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Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Ehrhart, Karl-Martin; Gardner, Roy; Hagen, Jürgen von; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

This paper studies budget processes, both theoretically and experimentally. We give a sufficient condition for top-down and bottom-up budget processes to have the same voting equilibrium. Furthermore, at a voting equilibrium, it is not always true, as often presumed, that a top-down budget...

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