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In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements, and participants have either complete or...
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In this paper, we define a tractable procedure to measure worker incomplete information in the labor market. The procedure, which makes use of earnings distribution skewness, is based on econometric frontier estimation techniques, and is consistent with search theory. We apply the technique to...
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experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …
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experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow …
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report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …
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A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
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lead, we report the results of a two-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. Even though it turns out to be …
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