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Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Luca, Michael; Martin, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

demonstrate that the inconsistency between theory and reality is driven by a fundamental failure in consumer inferences when …

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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management -- in both the public and private sectors …

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Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

casella, alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The paper studies a voting scheme where members of a committee voting sequentially on a known series of binary proposals are each granted a single extra bonus vote to cast as desired - a streamlined version of Storable Votes. When the order of the agenda is exogenous, a simple sufficient...

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Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control than Laboratory Experiments? A Simple Model

list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

certain variables is limited. In contrast, natural field experiments bypass the participation decision altogether and allow …

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Gender

Niederle, Muriel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

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On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children

list, john; Winter, Joachim; Houser, Daniel; Piovesan, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to attenuate such acts is an underexplored area of research. This study takes an economics approach to explore the propensity of individuals to act dishonestly across different economic environments. We begin...

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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics

list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders can swiftly add empirical evidence to aid their decision-making. This … study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …

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Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion: A Simple Approach

list, john; Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We introduce a simple, easy to implement instrument for jointly eliciting risk and ambiguity attitudes. Using this … significantly overstated when risk neutrality is assumed. This highlights the interplay between risk and ambiguity attitudes as well …

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Reference Points and Redistributive Preferences: Experimental Evidence

Charité, Jimmy; Fisman, Raymond; Kuziemko, Ilyana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

know (when we observe near-complete redistribution). Subjects who are themselves risk-seeking over losses drive the effect …

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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics: With A Response To Camerer

list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

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