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An empirical and qualitative assessment of terrorism sentencing decisions in Canada since 2001 : shifting away from the fundamental principle and towards cognitive biases
Nesbitt, Michael; Oxoby, Robert J.; Potier, Meagan - 2019
In this paper, we take a comprehensive and multidisciplinary look at terrorism sentencing decisions over a 17-year period, between September 2001 when the ATA was first conceived of and September 2018. In so doing, we first offer an empirical analysis of the sentences for all terrorism offenses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996408
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Asset integration, risk taking and loss aversion in the laboratory
Morrison, William G.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2019
We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997618
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Information, belief elicitation and threshold effects in the 5X1000 tax scheme : a framed field experiment
Becchetti, Leonardo; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2017
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641588
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Behavioral economic phenomena in decision-making for others
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2018
). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks … aversion, decoy effect, anchoring bias, endowment effect, and identifiable-victim bias. In our experiment, DMfO is DMfO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949189
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Randomizing endowments : an experimental study of rational expectations and reference-dependent preferences
Götte, Lorenz; Harms, Annette; Sprenger, Charles - 2014
exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436164
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A parametric analysis of prospect theory's functionals for the general population
Booij, Adam S.; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Kuilen, Gijs … - 2009
This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831223
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … into tournaments at a lower rate than men. -- Behavioral preferences ; real effort experiment ; gender differences ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983612
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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958768
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The effect of economic change and elite framing on economic preferences : a survey experiment
Marx, Paul; Schumacher, Gijs - 2014
conditions. We therefore designed a survey experiment to evaluate how economic change in conjunction with different elite frames … by income group and partisanship. Our survey experiment - carried out in the UK - demonstrates that poor economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250078
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Loss aversion in the laboratory
Morrison, William G.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2014
We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379927