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Mutation-selection equilibria for the ultimatum game

Akdeniz, Aslihan; Veelen, Matthijs van - 2021

Rand et al. (2013) present a finite population model to explain the evolution of fair behaviour in the ultimatum game. They find that mutation and selection can balance at population states that resemble human behaviour, in that responders on average evolve sizable thresholds for rejection, and...

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Top-down or bottom-up? : disentangling channels of attention in risky choice

Engelmann, Jan; Hirmas, Alejandro; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2021

-specific and decisionspecific variation in attention and verify our framework in an eye-tracking experiment on risky choice. We …

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The initial deposit decision and the occurrence of bank runs

Jong, Johan de - 2021

what extent this mechanism prevents bank runs. It introduces an experiment in which participants first have to choose if … risky bank with the high interest rate and consequently leave the deposit in the bank. In the experiment the first …

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What to target? : insights from a lab experiment

Salle, Isabelle L. - 2021

This paper compares alternative monetary policy regimes within a controlled lab environment, where groups of participants are tasked with repeatedly forecasting inflation in a simple macroeconomic model featuring only the dynamics of interest rates, inflation and inflation expectations....

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Gender differences in private and public goal setting

Brandts, Jordi; El Baroudi, Sabrine; Huber, Stefanie J.; … - 2022

We conduct a field and an online classroom experiment to study gender differences in self-set performance goals and …

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How to reduce discrimination? : evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer

Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022 - This version: 17 January 2022

, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together …

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A social norm nudge to save more : a field experiment at a retail bank

Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2019

examine whether a social norm nudgecan stimulate such households to save more by running a small-scale survey ex-periment and … a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands.The survey experiment shows that a social norm nudge … increases intended sav-ings. In line with this, we find in our field experiment that households whoare exposed to the social …

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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...

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Demand reduction and preemptive bidding in multi-unit license auctions

Goeree, Jacob K.; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2004

Multi-unit ascending auctions allow for equilibria in which bidders strategically reduce their demand and split the market at low prices. At the same time, they allow for preemptive bidding by incumbent bidders in a coordinated attempt to exclude entrants from the market. We consider an...

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Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory : an experimental study

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …

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