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A model is developed to understand how norms can be influenced by "norm entrepreneurs", e.g. lawmakers, government agencies, unions etc. Two instruments of influencing the dynamics of normfollowing behavior are analyzed, namely transforming the (monetary) incentives and changing the meaning or...
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Deriving advice that can in fact be utilized by boundedly rational decision makers is a central function of modeling … choice making. We illustrate why this role is not being fulfilled well by standard models of full rationality and that … theories of bounded rationality are needed not only for better predictions, but also for developing better advice. Our main …
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that are well known from game theory and evolutionary game theory to solve these games. For illustration we include two …
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This paper investigates the behaviour in repeated decision situations. The experimental study shows that subjects show … low or no risk-aversion, but put very high value on the opportunity to sell the lottery in every stage of the decision … behaviour ; decision-making experiments …
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Retributive responses do play a role in human behavior. Whether they are primarily triggered by supposed intentions or by observed consequences of actions is an important question. It can be addressed by experimental studies of retributive responses in situations in which the individual actor...
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Fairness is a strong concern as shown by the robust results of dictator giving and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency, measured by the sum of individual payoffs, is another potential concern in games such as the prisoners’ dilemma and public good provision games. In our experiment participants...
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We examine the robustness of information cascades in laboratory experiments. Apart from the situation in which each player can obtain a signal for free (as in the experiment by Anderson and Holt, 1997, American Economic Review), the case of costly signals is studied where players decide whether...
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economic theory suggests to solve the decision problem. But since real decision makers can hardly be expected to behave …In this paper I consider a complex decision problem where subjects have to cope with a time horizon of uncertain …
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performance elasticities are contrary to predictions of agency theory. Both results provide further support to the common belief …
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In a complete financial market every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly. In an incomplete market it is possible to stay on the safe side by superhedging. But such strategies may require a large amount of initial capital. Here we study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling...
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