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during the experiment to test subjects' understanding of relationships between distribution of votes and voting power. The …
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This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of...
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A review shows that contingent valuation (CV) studies implemented in developing countries are generally used to measure demands (for water, sanitation or health services) and neglect the valuation of nonmarket goods (like ecosystems, biodiversity, or environmental amenities). These studies also...
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tax compliance decisions, we have conducted a laboratory experiment in which we introduced two types of inequities. The …
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This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821516
A lot of empirical and behavioral studies underline the idea of a non-flat term structure of subjective interest rates with a decreasing slope. Using an empirical test, this paper aims at identifying in individual behaviors whether agents see their psychological value of time decreasing or not....
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In this article I have attempted to discuss two points brought up by Sunstein and Thaler's new perspective on paternalism. The first is that whatever individuals do, they have to take second rank decisions, i.e. decisions that are equally attractive for them but impact others' people welfare....
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This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833336
their income - the higher the risk aversion, the more stable the cooperatives and the lower the segregation. Learning can … high or low-risk, and while they are learning, they tend to create cooperatives that can last. Eventually we worked on the …
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private agents are gradually learning their uncertain environment. When agents update their beliefs about the parameters that … under adaptive learning are significantly larger than under rational expectations. In our benchmark case calibrated using US … data on leverage, debt-to-GDP and land value-to-GDP ratios for 1996Q1-2008Q4, learning amplifies leverage shocks by a …
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