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Social Comparison and Risky Choices
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
: individual decision making under risk and decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on … fixed payoff that is respectively higher and lower than all possible payoffs of the decision maker. In the neutral context … social referent and decision maker will always earn the same amount. In the gain and loss contexts the decision maker has no …
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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study
Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
authority and responder.Both players in each pair have earned an own income in an individual realeffort decision …
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The Impact of Female Sex Hormones on Competitiveness
Buser, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We use fluctuations of female sex hormones occurring naturally over the menstrual cycle or induced by hormonal contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task...
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Emotions and Economic Shocks in a First-Price Auction
Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...
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Judicial Error by Groups and Individuals
Dijk, Frans van; Sonnemans, Joep H.; Bauw, Ed - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization' (2014). Volume 108, pages 224-235.<P> In criminal cases judges evaluate and combine probabilistic evidence to reach verdicts. Unavoidably, errors are made, resulting in unwarranted conviction or...</p>
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Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …
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Other-regarding Preferences, Group Identity and Political Participation: An Experiment
Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in-group bias is either high or low. At the individual level,...
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Learning, Forecasting and Optimizing: An Experimental Study
Bao, Te; Duffy, John; Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
. Subjects are less likely to make conditionally optimal production decision for given forecasts in treatment 3) where the …
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Individual Expectations and Aggregate Macro Behavior
Assenza, Tiziana; Heemeijer, Peter; Hommes, Cars; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
The way in which individual expectations shape aggregate macroeconomic variables is crucial for the transmission and effectiveness of monetary policy. We study the individual expectations formation process and the interaction with monetary policy, within a standard New Keynesian model, by means...
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Coordination of Expectations in Asset Pricing Experiments
Hommes, Cars; Sonnemans, Joep; Tuinstra, Jan; Velden, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We investigate expectation formation in a controlled experimental en-vironment. Subjects are asked to predict the price in a standard asset pricingmodel. They do not have knowledge of the underlying market equilibrium equa-tions, but they know all past realized prices and their own predictions....
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