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Valuing Protection against Low Probability,High Loss Risks: Experimental Evidence

Morone, Andrea; Ozdemir, Ozlem - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

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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Voluntary contributions with imperfect information:An experimental study

Fiore, Annamaria; Levati, M. Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

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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Costly bargaining and renegotiation

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

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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Transaction costs and the robustness of the Coase Theorem

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

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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Costly coasian contracts

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

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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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...

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On the Absorbability of the Guessing Game Theory -A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

Morone, Andrea; Sandri, Serena; Uske, Tobias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

absorptionand experimentally test the effects of informing none, some, or all playersabout how to derive equilibrium predictions. …

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Indirect Reciprocity in Cyclical Networks- An Experimental Study

Greiner, Ben; Levati, Maria Vittoria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

A cyclical network of indirect reciprocity is derived organizing 3- or6-person groups into rings of social interaction where the first individualcan help the second, the second the third, and so on till the last, who inreturn can help the first. Mutual cooperation is triggered by assuming...

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