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Solving the Yitzhaki Paradox: Income Tax Evasion and Reference Dependence under Prospect Theory
Trotin, Gwenola - HAL - 2012
This paper examines the determinants of tax evasion under prospect theory. For prospect theory, reference dependence is a fundamental element (the utility function depends on gains and losses relative to a reference point and not on final wealths as in expected utility theory). In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933897
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Aspiration Levels and Educational Choices : An experimental study
Page, Lionel; Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - HAL - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750819
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From welfare to preferences, do decision flaws matter? The case of tuition fees
Lecouteux, Guilhem; Moulin, Léonard - HAL - 2013
We investigate the relation between welfare and preference satisfaction in economics, and show that the extension of the scope of economic analysis through the 20th century forces economists to question the validity of the preference satisfaction criterion as a normative criterion for evaluating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633780
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Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market: Comment Working Paper
Buisson, Florent - HAL - 2013
In an often quoted article, Genesove and Mayer (2001) observe that house sellers are reluctant to sell at a loss, and attribute this finding to loss aversion. I show that loss aversion cannot explain this phenomenon.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635268
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Prospect Theory and consumer behavior: Goals and Tradeoffs
Buisson, Florent - HAL - 2013
I show that a loss averse consumer who must share her budget between two goods prefer allocations for which consumption equals reference point for at least one good. The phenomenon intensity depends on the curvature of the utility curve. These results are consistent with several stylized facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026068
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Stochastic dominance with respect to a capacity and risk measures
Grigorova, Miryana - HAL - 2011
Pursuing our previous work in which the classical notion of increasing convex stochastic dominance relation with respect to a probability has been extended to the case of a normalised monotone (but not necessarily additive) set function also called a capacity, the present paper gives a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368022
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Effect of Uncertainty about Others' Rationality in Experimental Asset Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Akiyama, Eizo; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Ishikawa, Ryuichiro - HAL - 2012
We investigate the extent to which price deviations from fundamental values in an experimental asset market are due to the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects in two market environments: (a) all six traders are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933826
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It is Not Just Confusion! Strategic Uncertainty in an Experimental Asset Market
Akiyama, Eizo; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Ishikawa, Ryuichiro - HAL - 2013
To what extent is the observed mis-pricing in experimental asset markets caused by strategic uncertainty (SU) and by individual bounded rationality (IBR)? We address this question by comparing subjects initial price forecasts in two market environments - one with six human traders, and the other...
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929091
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Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1)
Chanel, Olivier; Luchini, Stephane; Massoni, Sébastien; … - HAL - 2010
Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern democracies, governments need to convince their populations...
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