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decide whether to search for a new wild organism with a certain quality or to produce the drug in question with an extant …
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verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …
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risk attitudes weremeasured through a web-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants' preferencesfor … resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly measured during the experiment.Main findings are that delayed …
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Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
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by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
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works in anindividual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequentialsearch problem. After extensive practice …
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The supposed irrelevance of historical costs for rational decision making has been the subject of much interest in the economic literature. In this paper we explore whether individual decision making under risk is affected by the cost of the supplied information. Outside of the lab, it is...
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See also the article <I>Search Costs, Demand-side Economies, and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition … merge in a Bertrand competitionmodel where firms sell differentiated products and consumers search the marketfor … than the outsiders so consumers search forgood deals first at the non-merging stores and then, if they do not find …
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I examine a search model a la' Burdett and Judd (1983). Consumers are embedded in a consumers network, they may costly … search for price quotations and the information gathered are non-excludable along direct links. This allows me to explore the … effect of endogenous consumers externalities on market functioning. I first show that when search costs are low consumers …
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We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...
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