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When people decide about saving and consumption across the various periods of their life time they take into account their life expectancy when comparing present and future needs and resources for satisfying them. The experimental design, applied at two sites (Humboldt-University at Berlin and...
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Empirical studies in family economics usually rely on questionnaires, statistical or panel data. Here we try to study experimentally some crucial aspects of engaging in a marriage. First the female partner can end the relationship or suggest one of the two forms of joint venture. Whereas a full...
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Rational bargaining behavior depends crucially on the rules of bargaining, especially on whether parties decide sequentially or independently. Whereas in ultimatum bargaining the proposer can exploit the responder, independent commitments result in more balanced payoffs. To limit the scope of...
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Individuals frequently transfer commodities without an explicit contract or an implicit enforcement mechanism. We design an experiment to study whether such commodity transfers can be viewed as investments based on trust and reciprocity, or whether they rather resemble presents with...
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In the trust game first player 1 decides between non-cooperation or trust in reciprocity and then, in the latter case, player 2 between exploiting player 1 or rewarding him. In our experiment, player 2 can be a notorically rewarding player (this type is implemented as a robot strategy) or a...
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low or no risk-aversion, but put very high value on the opportunity to sell the lottery in every stage of the decision … problem. There is evidence that risk attitudes depend on whether they are measured by comparing the certainty equivalent and … the expected value of a lottery or by preferences over mean-preserving spreads. -- Dynamic decisions ; risk taking …
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know the distribution. We first derive the market results when sellers are risk averse, similarly to Ponssard (1979) who … assumed risk neutrality throughout. With the help of these results evolutionary processes are formulated according to which …
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of boundedly rational individuals. In view of such a causal role of theories we discuss how advice of a theory of …
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setting behavior is in general consistent with the theory. Capacities converge above the Cournot level. Sellers rarely manage …
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