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This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested socialdilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into twogroups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoreticallyderived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental...
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We examine the strategic behavior of leaders and followers in sequential duopoly experiments in which followers either …
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Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by out-comes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, whereprocedures are dened independently of an outcome. To that end, wedesign procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry thesame information on other's...
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Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to provide a, probably subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we discuss important extensions of the standard...
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Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits withoutenforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking andrather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it.[...]
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This paper derives and justifies a procedurally fair bidding mechanism and reviews experiments that apply the mechanism … to public projects provision. In the experiments, not all parties benefit from provision, and the projects' costs can be …
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In this paper the authors experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by ordering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices.
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This paper focuses on egocentric biases in financial decisions. Subjects first design a portfolio, whereby each combination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. (...)
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Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to provide a, probably subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we discuss important extensions of the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315721
This paper derives and justifies a procedurally fair bidding mechanism and reviews experiments that apply the mechanism … to public projects provision. In the experiments, not all parties benefit from provision, and the projects’ costs can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723523