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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion –An experimental investigation

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures ofmyopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment … behaviour under risk. We find thatboth, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally tothe effects of … MLA. Longer investment horizons and less frequent feedbacklead to higher investments. However, when given the choice …

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Framing Effects, Selective Information andMarket Behavior An Experimental Analysis

Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris; Weber, Martin - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

The results of an asset market experiment, in which 64 subjects trade two assets oneight markets in a computerized …

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The excess burden of tax evasion - An experimental detection-concealment contest

Bayer, Ralph-C.; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

with risk neutral tax payers predicts. We find evidence that this is rather due to individual moral constraints than due to … risk aversion. …

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Experimental evidence of the importance of gender pairing in bargaining

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; van … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects...

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Specious Confidence after Tax Audits: A Contribution to theDynamics of Compliance

Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris; Schwarzenberger, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

a tax experiment. Compliance varied significantlyover time: it decreased immediately after an audit and increased …

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Tax evasion and state productivity - Anexperimental study

Güth, Werner; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

In an overlapping generations-experiment with multiple families participants caneither support their parents directly …

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Individual behavior and group membership: Comment

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions withsalient group membership are largely the …

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Individual or team decision-making –Causes and consequences of self-selection

Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

Even though decision-making in small teams is pervasive in business and in private life, littleis known about subjects’ preferences with respect to individual and team decision-making andabout the consequences of respecting these preferences. We report the results from anexperimental...

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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

We present a model where compensation within a workteam is determinedendogenously by the use of a rank-order tournament. Team memberscompete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prizewithin the team. The implementation of a proposal requires the approvalof other team...

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The Decision Maker Matters: Individual versus Group Behaviour in Experimental Beauty-Contest Games

Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

Economics has devoted little attention so far as to whether the type of decision maker matters for economic decisions. However, many important decisions like those on monetary policy or a company’s business strategy are made by (small) groups rather than an individual. We compare behaviour of...

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