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The effect of incomplete information on the term structure of interest rates is examined in the framework of a pure … Interest Rates ; Incomplete Information …
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provide information about other subjects' choices. There we find no false consensus effect. At an aggregate level, subjects … not provide information. …
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In a model with private information of the worker about her ability and unobservable effort choice, the role of public … information rent if the employment exchange is inefficient and the employer chooses not to use the private agency. -- principal …
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In this note we study a very simple trial & error learning process in the context of a Cournot oligopoly. Without any … knowledge of the payoff functions players increase, respectively decrease, their quantity by one unit as long as this leads to …
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alone can only provide a very rough information on individual updating behavior. Therefore, we implement a BDM mechanism …
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In this paper individual overconfidence within the context of an experimental asset market is investigated. Overall, 72 participants traded one risky asset on six markets of 12 participants each. The results indicate that individuals were not generally overconfident. Moreover, overconfidence was...
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In standard rational choice modelling decisions are made according to given information and preferences. In the model … presented here the 'information technology' of individual decision makers as well as their preferences evolve in a dynamic …
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Dismissal rules, i.e. legally enforced long term contracts, have beem defended against criticism for, among other things, providing efficient incentives to invest in relationship specific skills. However, in many situations efficient investment can also be attained by spot contracts. We...
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New macro empirical evidence is provided to assess the relative importance of object and idea gaps in explaining the world income distribution dynamics. Formal statistical hypothesis tests allow us to discriminate between two competing growthmodels: (i) the standard neoclassical growth model...
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sequencing structure of game types, game rules do matter, and directional learning theory offers a partial explanation for bid …We examine learning behavior in auctions and Fair division games with independent private values under two different … than single bids. This allows us to examine whether learning is influenced by the structural differences between games. We …
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