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This article experimentally explores the way in which human agents learn how to process and manage new information. In an abstract setting, players should perform an everyday task: selecting information, making generalizations, distinguishing contexts. The tendency to generalize is common to all...
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initiate corruption actively, in order to assess the full effect of whistle-blowing. In our laboratory experiment we find that …
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laboratory experiment we test the different theories by systematically varying information conditions. We find significant …
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In this paper we introduce a new type of experiment that combines the advantages of lab and field experiments. The … experiment is conducted in the lab but using an unchanged market environment from the real world. Moreover, a subset of the … experiment to study seller behavior in online auctions with a Buy-It-Now feature, where early potential bidders have the …
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We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …
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size, as in Adams (2002). Our experiment results show that for both production functions bigger groups reduce contribution …
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We experiment a new mechanism for the provision of a discrete public good: in a fixed period individuals can contribute …
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We run a public good experiment with four different treatments. The payoff function is chosen such that the Nash …
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We present an experiment for the study of learning in a complex task which requires both memorisation and the ability … the end of the experiment) the subjects start refining them to include a larger subset of the information, this causes …
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on public good provision using laboratory experiments. We create two artificial social groups in the lab and we assign …
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