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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities … confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers in the labor market: choosing between jobs with … confidence leads to an increase in subjects' propensity to choose payment schemes that depend heavily on ability. This is …
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An experimental analysis of overconfidence in tarif choice
Dowling, Katharina; Spann, Martin; Stich, Lucas - 2019
Digitalization has changed existing business models and enabled new ones. This development has been accompanied by the emergence of new pricing options and the possibility of applying established pricing models in new domains. Today, consumers can, for example, pay for accessing a product...
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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, an d donor's trust: experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2018
In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group …
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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust : experimental evidence
Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2017
In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality …
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Manipulation and (mis)trust in prediction markets
Choo, Lawrence; Kaplan, Todd R.; Zultan, Ro'i - 2020
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Price dynamics and trader overconfidence
Ahrens, Steffen; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril; Roulund, Rasmus Pank - 2019
Overconfidence is one of the most important biases in financial markets and commonly associated with excessive trading and asset market bubbles. So far, most of the finance literature takes overconfidence as a given, "static" personality trait. In this paper we introduce a novel experimental...
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Beliefs and actions in the trust game : creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2012
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's belief about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments ask participants to state beliefs explicitly but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and...
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Control, cost, and confidence : perseverance and procrastination in the face of failure
Deimen, Inga; Wirtz, Julia - 2020
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Are happier people less judgmental of other People's selfish behaviors? : laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
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