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Making the World a better Place: Experimental evidencefrom the generosity Game
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009
We study ultimatum and dictator experiments where the first moverchooses the amount of money to be distributed between the playerswithin a given interval, knowing that her own share is fixed. Thus, thefirst mover is faced with scarcity, but not with the typical trade-off betweenher own and the...
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Testing the Modigliani-Miller theorem directly in the lab
Levati, Maria Vittoria; Qiu, Jianying; Mahagaonkar, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011
We present an experiment designed to test the Modigliani-Miller theorem. Applyinga general equilibrium approach and not …, participantswell recognize changes in the systematic risk of equity associated with increasingleverage and, accordingly, demand higher … rate of return. Yet, this adjustment is notperfect: subjects underestimate the systematic risk of low-leveraged equity …
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Scenario-Based Satisficing in Saving:A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
Contrary to the models of deterministic life cycle saving, we take itfor granted that uncertainty of one's future is the essential problem ofsaving decisions. However, unlike the stochastic life cycle models, we capturethis crucial uncertainty by a non-Bayesian scenario-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866571
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Social Learning of Efficiency Enhancing TradeWith(out) Market Entry Costs - An ExperimentalStudy
Chlaß, Nadine; Güth, Werner; Vanberg, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
We investigate experimentally whether entry costs have an impact on the evolutionof cooperation in a social dilemma game. In particular, subjects repeatedly playthe so-called takeover game with anonymous partners randomly drawn from a fixedpopulation of participants. The game represents a social...
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Context and Interpretation in Laboratory Experiments:The Case of Reciprocity
Levati, Maria Vittoria; Miettinen, Topi; Rai, Birendra K. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
The existing literature acknowledges that a mismatch between the experimenter'sand the subjects' models of an experimental task can adversely aect the interpretation ofdata from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common experimental designs(between-subjects and within-subjects) used...
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