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Using response times to measure strategic complexity and the value of thinking in games
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2017
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games (Rubinstein, 2007; Rubinstein, 2016). We leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on...
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News media and crime perceptions : evidence from a natural experiment
Matrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi - 2018
individuals aged 50 and over, who turn out to be more exposed to television while using other sources of information less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853454
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Strategic complexity and the value of thinking
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2022
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games. In this paper, we leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on average when they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191643
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How cognitive skills affect strategic behavior : cognitive ability, fluid intelligence and judgment
Gill, David; Knepper, Zachary; Prowse, Victoria; Zhou, Junya - 2024
We explore the influence of cognitive ability and judgment on strategic behavior in the beauty contest game (where the Nash equilibrium action is zero). Using the level-k model of bounded rationality, cognitive ability and judgment both predict higher level strategic thinking. However,...
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The impact of social comparisons on reciprocity
Gächter, Simon (contributor); Nosenzo, Daniele (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747659
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How partisan is the press? : multiple measures of media slant
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 public intellectuals on a left-right scale. We then estimate slant by using the number of mentions...
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Terrorism and the media
Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409821
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions "and particularly trust in banks, business and government" has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy...
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Advising policymakers through the media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Terrorism, media coverage and education : evidence from Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya
Alfano, Marco; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal coverage and attacks, we establish that media access...
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