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whether the willingness to invest can help to explain saving behavior, i.e. experimentally observed intertemporal decision …
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In this paper I consider a complex decision problem where subjects have to cope with a time horizon of uncertain … economic theory suggests to solve the decision problem. But since real decision makers can hardly be expected to behave … part of the paper I discuss how much of the data can be explained by assuming that experimental subjects are risk averse. …
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in the two countries and in (ii) the interaction of investment and financing decisions. This paper investigates the … impact of financing, investment, and dividend decisions on the value of stock corporations in Germany and the US. The … investment creates value in excess of cost, but the US industrial sector seems to be more efficient in making value …
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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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Most models of labor markets and (un)employment neglect how competition among firms or sectors of the economy affects their hiring of workers and working times. Our approach pays special attention to such effects by proposing a complex stage game where firms invest in capital equipment before...
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generated by a Lévy process and agents exhibit constant relative risk aversion, closed-form solutions are derived. Depending on …
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contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al … investor may only be rewarded by a third person who did not receive his investment. Furthermore we investigate the influence of …
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Updating behavior in cascade experiments is usually investigated on the basis of urn prediction. But urn predictions alone can only provide a very rough information on individual updating behavior. Therefore, we implement a BDM mechanism. Subjects have to submit maximum prices that they are...
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In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others' behavior. In each session and round sixteen subjects make a choice between two options simultaneously. Then they...
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We prove existence of an Arrow-Debreu equilibrium when agents' preferences exhibit local substitution in the sense of Hindy, Huang, and Kreps (1992). Efficient allocations and supporting price functionals are identified and characterized. Under Hindy Huang Kreps preferences, equilibrium price...
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