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Empirical studies in family economics usually rely on questionnaires, statistical or panel data. Here we try to study experimentally some crucial aspects of engaging in a marriage. First the female partner can end the relationship or suggest one of the two forms of joint venture. Whereas a full...
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loss that one tries to "repair" by risk seeking behavior. Participants who increased their net asset holdings declared less …
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This paper presents a general theory that works out the relation between coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and … preferences, in the way many coherent risk measures are somewhat generic. -- coherent risk rneasures ; valuation bounds …
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An investor faced with a contingent claim may eliminate risk by (super-)hedging in a financial market. As this is often … quite expensive, we study partial hedges, which require less capital and reduce the risk. In a previous paper we determined … the shortfall risk defined as the expectation of the shortfall weighted by some loss function. The resulting efficient …
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donated to charity organizations. Our main results show that higher income induces tax fraud and that gender differences exist. …
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The findings on the ultimatum game are considered as belonging to the most robust experimental results. In this paper we present a slightly altered version of the mini ultimatum game of Bolton and Zwick (1995). Whereas in the latter exactly equal splits were feasible in our games these were...
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Search for an unknown set A,Card(A) = s, of significant variables of a linear model with random IID discrete binary carriers and finitely supported IID noise is studied. Two statistics T1, Ts, based on maximization of Shannon Information (SI) of the corresponding classes of joint empirical...
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When people decide about saving and consumption across the various periods of their life time they take into account their life expectancy when comparing present and future needs and resources for satisfying them. The experimental design, applied at two sites (Humboldt-University at Berlin and...
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design an experiment to study whether such commodity transfers can be viewed as investments based on trust and reciprocity …, or whether they rather resemble presents with distributional intentions. Our experiment essentially modifies Berg et al …
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employees to accept lower wages as well? As an alternative to reviewing statistical data, we have performed an experiment with a … lower competitive wage in the second phase of an employment relationship that is known to both parties. The experiment casts …
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