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From full to bounded rationality : the limits of unlimited rationality

Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2001

choice making. We illustrate why this role is not being fulfilled well by standard models of full rationality and that … theories of bounded rationality are needed not only for better predictions, but also for developing better advice. Our main … point is that one cannot succeed here without studying how theories of bounded rationality causally influence the behavior …

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A psychological approach to individual differences in intertemporal consumption patterns

Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner - 1998

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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Presents or investments? : an experimental analysis

Genîzî, Ûrî; Güth, Werner; Verboven, Frank - 1998

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 distributional intentions. Our experiment essentially modifies Berg et al …

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An experimental study of the repeated trust game with incomplete information

Anderhub, Vital; Güth, Werner; Engelmann, Dirk - 1999

, player 2 between exploiting player 1 or rewarding him. In our experiment, player 2 can be a notorically rewarding player … repeated games with changed partners. In our computerized experiment, participants can explicitly rely on mixed strategies …

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Dynamic decision structure and risk taking

Eichberger, Jürgen; Güth, Werner; Müller, Wieland - 1999

This paper investigates the behaviour in repeated decision situations. The experimental study shows that subjects show 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...

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Please, marry me! : an experimental study of risking a joint venture

Güth, Werner; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Tjotta, Sigve - 1999

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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Capacity choices and price competition in experimental markets

Anderhub, Vital; Güth, Werner; Kamecke, Ulrich; … - 2001

In the heterogeneous experimental oligopoly markets of this paper, sellers first choose capacities and then prices. In equilibrium, capacities should correspond to the Cournot prediction. In the experimental data, given capacities, observed price setting behavior is in general consistent with...

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Experimental "beauty contests" with homogeneous and heterogeneous players and with interior and boundary equilibria

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2001

We study behavior in experimental beauty contests with, first, boundary and interior equilibria, and, second, homogeneous and heterogenous types of players. We find quicker and better convergence to the game-theoretic equilibrium with interior equilibria and homogeneous players. -- beauty...

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