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Mind, body, bubble! : psychological and biophysical dimensions of behavior in experimental asset markets

Butler, David J.; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2018

Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly understood. Experimental methods can isolate systematic deviations from an asset's fundamental value in a...

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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market

Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017

Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...

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Gambling habits and probability judgements in a Bayesian task environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

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Career lotto : labor supply in winner-take-all markets

Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...

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Buying lottery tickets for foreign workers: search cost externalities induced by H-1B policy

Sharma, Rishi R.; Sparber, Chad - 2020

The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high-skilled foreign citizens. H-1B workers are highly concentrated among a small number of firms. We develop a theoretical model demonstrating that this phenomenon is an artifact of policy design: When the government...

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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory. -- Pricing under risk ; probability …

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A steady-state model of a non-walrasian economy with three imperfect markets

Wasmer, Etienne - 2011

Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004), I further introduce search on the goods market....

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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013

We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...

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The cyclical volatility of labor markets under frictional financial markets

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Wasmer, Etienne - 2010

Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke and Gertler 1989). We follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity shocks initiated by Shimer (2005): in an economy with search...

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