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We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby … inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …
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Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive ability. In this paper we … population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with choice tasks that vary the bias induced by random choices, we are able … to generate both negative and positive correlations between risk aversion and cognitive ability. Structural estimation …
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(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past...
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This paper tests the insiders' dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders' dilemma means that a … rather than exogenous merger theory. More surprisingly, our data suggests that fairness considerations also make profitable …
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particular the occurrence of bubble-crash pricing patterns. In each session, six subjects trade in three successive market rounds …
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We study risk taking on behalf of others, both with and without potential losses. A large-scale incentivized experiment … others are more risky. Using structural estimation, we show that this increase in risk stems from a decrease in loss aversion …
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