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Since its launch in 2009 much has been written about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains. While the discussions initially took place mostly on blogs and other popular media, we now are witnessing the emergence of a growing body of rigorous academic research on these topics. By the nature...
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also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the …
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Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and...
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The rebound effect is a well-known behavioral response whereby potential energy savings from efficiency improvements are partially offset by increased consumption of energy services, as the marginal cost of energy services is reduced. This paper characterizes a similar rebound effect related to...
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance …
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups …
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This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real …-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise information about decision times and decision quality, based on a … with the predictions of procedural decision models like drift-diffusion-models in which decision makers sequentially …
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when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …
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and decision time. Overall, the data show that more people follow the default if the nudge is made transparent. More … importantly, though, effects of transparency differ depending on whether people are fast or slow in their decision making. In … particular, (only) slow decision makers react more positively (keeping the default) if nudging is made transparent. Moreover, the …
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Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform well. Roughly one third of Dutch pre-university schools are of catholic denomination. Acknowledging this widely available outside option to public and other schools, this paper...
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