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the price, traders neglect the information conveyed by the hypothetical value of the price. In sequential markets where …
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Extensive evidence suggests that participants in the direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanism (DSPDA) play dominated strategies. In particular, students with low priority tend to misrepresent their preferences for popular schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce...
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(efficient) allocations are not incentive compatible is a fundamental fact in information economics, mechanism design and general … equilibrium with asymmetric information. This important result was obtained assuming that the individuals are expected utility … maximizers. Although this assumption is central to Harsanyi's approach to games with incomplete information, it is not the only …
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We examine the explanatory power of cascade models by implementing the BDM-mechanism in a simple cascade experiment in which subject have to decide on the prediction of a randomly choasen urn. Assigned price limits to participate in the prediction game are used as indicators of subjective...
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This paper shows that, for CEU preferences, the axioms consquentialism, state independenceand conditional certainty equivalent consistency under updating characterise a family of capacities,called Genralised Neo-Additive Capacities (GNAC). This family contains as special casesamong others...
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This questionnaire survey of fund managers in the United States, Germany and Switzerlanddocuments a distinctly positive influence of bonus payments on investment behavior on bothsides of the Atlantic. Higher bonus payments are significantly related to higher working effortbut not to risk taking....
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spreads are inversely related to a trade’s likely information content. Second,the paper suggests three potential sources for … the pattern of customer spreads, two of which rely onthe information structure of the market.[...] …
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levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
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. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …
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