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measure,(3)calculates relative risk aversion. The results of the experiment indicate that as theprobability of loss and loss …The study investigates protective responses in low probability and high loss risk situations.Particularly, it (1 … women) are found to be risk aversefor low probabilities. …
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We investigate the gender specific inter-temporal allocation behavior ofspouses with different deterministic life expectations in an experimentwhere the gender of one's partner is known. In each period of theirlife both partners propose a consumption level one of which is thenrandomly...
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examine the effect of imperfect information on contributions levels. To assess prior risk attitudes, individual valuations of … clear evidence of risk aversion, and of a negative relationship between the latter and willingness to cooperate. …
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We identify the inefficiencies that arise when negotiation between two parties takes place in the presence of transaction costs. First, for some values of these costs it is efficient to reach an agreement but the unique equilibrium outcome is one in which agreement is never reached. Secondly,...
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This paper explores the extent to which the presence of ex-ante transaction costs may lead to failures of the Coase Theorem. In particular we identify and investigate the basic ‘hold-up problem’ which arises whenever the parties to a Coasian negotiation have to pay some ex-ante costs for the...
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We identify and investigate the basic ‘hold-up problem’ which arises whenever each party to a contract has to pay some ex-ante cost for the contract to become feasible. We then proceed to show that, under plausible circumstances, a ‘contractual solution’ to this hold-up problem is not...
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absorptionand experimentally test the effects of informing none, some, or all playersabout how to derive equilibrium predictions. …
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We present an experimental test of a shirking model where monitoring intensityis endogenous and effort a continuous … maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay shouldbe complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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ultimatum game with changing and nonzeroconflict payoffs. The model is also tested in a laboratory experiment. The resultsare …
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It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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