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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2006 - This version: 8 August 2006
While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by...
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Bargaining in the presence of condorcet cycles : the role of asymmetries
Kamm, Aaron; Houba, Harold - 2015
This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment studying the role of asymmetries, both in payoffs and recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from...
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Individual expectations and aggregate macro behavior
Assenza, Tiziana; Heemeijer, Peter; Hommes, Cars H.; … - 2013
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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness
Buser, Thomas - 2009
competitiveness: via an impact on risk aversion, via an impact on performance, and via an impact on overconfidence. None of these hold …
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Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory : an experimental study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...
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Information at a cost
Robalo, Pedro; Sayag, Rei - 2012
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Firm-specific information and explicit collusion in experimental oligopolies
Gomez-Martin, Francisco; Onderstal, Sander; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015
We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors ́actions on cartel stability and firms ́incentives … to form cartels in Cournot markets. As in previous experiments, markets become very competitive when individualized … information is available and participants cannot communicate. In contrast, when communication is possible, results reverse …
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The impact of naïve advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games
Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007 - This version: January 24, 2007
sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naïve advice …We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both …
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Complex evolutionary systems in behavioral finance
Hommes, Cars H.; Wagener, Florian Oskar Ottokar - 2008
laboratory experiments with human subjects are also discussed. …
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Social comparison and risky choices
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2009
This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and … referent so strategic behavior or social preferences can play no role. We find that decision makers are more risk-averse in the …
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