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Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments
Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
parameterizations studied. The theoretical conclusions are tested through laboratory experiments. Subjects have difficulty identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123593
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Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment
Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the presence and importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497798
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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets
Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management - in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504341
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Minorities and Storable Votes
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas R; Riezman, Raymond - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
confirmed by a series of experiments: the frequency of minority victories, the relative payoff of the minority versus the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656276
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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082540
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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences...
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Field Experiments with Firms
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior …. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and draw common lessons from both sets …. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light on the nature of agency problems. Along these lines, we discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493556
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364748
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365004
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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data
Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662342