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Framing effects on asset markets : an experimental analysis

Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris; Weber, Martin - 2001

In this paper we investigate four hypotheses which are inconsistent with expected utility theory, but may well be explained by prospect theory. It deals with framing, the non-linearity of subjective probabilities, the disposition effect, and the correspondence of different experimental risk...

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Mental accounting and the impact of tax penalty and audit frequency on the declaration of income : an experimental analysis

Maciejovsky, Boris; Kirchler, Erich; Schwarzenberger, … - 2001

We investigate (i) whether traders on an experimental asset market form different and separate mental accounts for sale revenues and for dividend earnings and whether (ii) an increase in tax penalty or (iii) an increase in audit frequency increases tax compliance. The results indicate that...

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Strategies, heuristics and the relevance of risk aversion in a dynamic decision problem

Müller, Wieland - 1999

In this paper I consider a complex decision problem where subjects have to cope with a time horizon of uncertain duration and must update their termination probabilities which depend on stochastic events during "life". First I describe how economic theory suggests to solve the decision problem....

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The local power of some unit root tests for panel data

Breitung, Jörg - 1999

do not require a bias correction. The results of a Monte Carlo experiment suggest that avoiding the bias can improve the … (1993) and Im, Pesaran and Shin (1997) suggest bias adjusted t-statistics. Such corrections are necessary to account for the … affected by two different terms. The first term represents the asymptotic effect on the bias due the detrending method and the …

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Measurement error, biases, and the validation of complex models

Carroll, Raymond J.; Galindo, Christian D. - 1997

There are three major points to this article: 1. Measurement error causes biases in regression fits. The line one would obtain if one could accurately measure exposure to environmental lead media will differ in important ways when one measures exposure with error. 2. The effects of measurement...

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Private information, risk aversion, and the evolution of market research

Güth, Sandra; Güth, Werner; Müller, Wieland - 2000

On a homogeneous oligopoly market informed sellers are fully aware of market demand whereas uninformed sellers only know the distribution. We first derive the market results when sellers are risk averse, similarly to Ponssard (1979) who assumed risk neutrality throughout. With the help of these...

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The relevance of equal splits : on a behavioral discontinuity in ultimatum games

Güth, Werner; Huck, Steffen; Müller, Wieland - 1998

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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Maximization of empirical Shannon information in testing significant variables of linear model

Malyutov, M.; Sadaka, H. - 1998

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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A psychological approach to individual differences in intertemporal consumption patterns

Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner - 1998

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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Presents or investments? : an experimental analysis

Genîzî, Ûrî; Güth, Werner; Verboven, Frank - 1998

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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