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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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We report the results of an experimental test for feedback-conditional regret effects using a naturally occurring gamble. The properties of this gamble are likely to engage decision-makers to a greater extent than conventional abstract laboratory gambles, and be more generally exhibited by real...
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We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a … common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately …
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We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table … with an individual preference for a choice under risk, based on privately received information, and can share this … information with fellow group members. They then make a decision under risk on behalf of the group using a random dictatorship …
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The common prior assumption is pervasive in game-theoretic models with incomplete information. This paper investigates experimentally the importance of inducing a common prior in a two-person signaling game. For a specific probability distribution of the sender's type, the long-run behavior...
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chosen under the veil of ignorance. In our experiment, individuals choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and …
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This paper presents an experimental study of dynamic indefinite horizon R&D races with uncertainty and multiple prizes. The theoretical predictions are highly sensitive: small parameter changes determine whether technological competition is sustained, or converges into a market structure with an...
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This paper reports on an experiment designed to examine the effects of small-scale changes in wealth on risk attitudes …. We find that the money given prior to risky choices does not induce a change of subjects' risk preferences. This result … given to subjects in our experiment is administered in between risky tasks and framed as a reward rather than a windfall …
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This paper reports an experiment designed to test whether prior consultation within a group affects subsequent … individual decision making in tasks where demonstrability of correct solutions is low. In our experiment subjects considered two …
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We study information conditions under which individuals are willing to delegate their sanctioning power to a central authority. We design a public goods game in which players can move between institutional environments, and we vary the observability of others’ contributions. We find that the...
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