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Errors in Judicial Decisions

Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …

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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Purpose:

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Who are the Behavioral Economists and what do they say?

Heukelom, Floris - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

The most important financial source for behavioral economics is the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). The most prominent behavioral economists among the RSF’s twenty-six member Behavioral Economics Roundtable (BER) are Kahneman, Tversky, Thaler, Camerer, Loewenstein, Rabin, and Laibson. The...

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Gift Exchange and the Separation of Ownership and Control

Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Numerous gift exchange experiments have found a positive relationship between employers' wage offers and workers' effort levels. In (almost) all these experiments the employer both owns and controls the firm. Yet in reality many firms are characterized by the separation of ownership and control....

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Control without Deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

in a public good experiment prompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from a deceptive design, that subjects are more … sensitive to free-riding than cooperation on the part of others. The experiment provides similar results to Weimann's, in that … explain decay in contributions in repeated play designs. The experiment shows there is a workable alternative to deception. …

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Experimental Public Choice

Schram, Arthur J.H.C. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

A review is given of the use of laboratory experiments in the Public Choice literature. A distinction is made in experiments on public goods, participation games, rent-seeking and lobbying, and spatial voting.

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Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays a repeated public good game to a strangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations. Subjects in the partners condition contribute from the first period on significantly more to the public...

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Coordination of Expectations in Asset Pricing Experiments

Hommes, Cars; Sonnemans, Joep; Tuinstra, Jan; Velden, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

We investigate expectation formation in a controlled experimental en- vironment. Subjects are asked to predict the price in a standard asset pricing model. They do not have knowledge of the underlying market equilibrium equa- tions, but they know all past realized prices and their own...

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How Universal is Behavior?

Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Separating Real Incentives and Accountability

Vieider, Ferdinand M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

reversals between frames, for which incentives have no effect. Incentives on the other hand are found to reduce risk seeking for …

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