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In 2013, Stiftung Warentest tested hazelnut chocolate for their leading magazine, called Test. Stiftung Warentest is one of the most important consumer organizations in Germany. Ritter Sport is a high-quality producer of chocolate in Germany. Their hazelnut chocolate did not pass the test. It...
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We survey retail investors at an online bank to study beliefs about the autocorrelation of aggregate stock returns, and how these beliefs shape investment decisions measured in administrative account data. Individuals' beliefs exhibit substantial heterogeneity and predict trading responses to...
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In experiments with economists, we measure how the evaluation of research studies depends on whether the study yielded a null result. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with statistically...
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respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …
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In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for factchecking when the newsletter features stories from an...
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We study the effects of forward guidance with an approach that combines theory with experimental estimates of counterfactual expectation adjustments. Guided by the model, we conduct experiments with representative samples of the US population to study how households adjust their expectations in...
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Information provision experiments have become pivotal in understanding how beliefs influence human behavior in various … social science contexts. These experiments, which manipulate the information sets available to respondents, enable the … methodologies for measuring and updating beliefs, designing effective information treatments, and addressing experimenter demand …
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information intervention leads to a reduction in the demand for psychotherapy. A mechanism experiment reveals that this … information increases optimism about future mental health, thereby reducing the perceived need for therapy. …
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's use of mass communication media to obtain information about the ECB. We employ a unique representative public opinion … of knowing about monetary policy, but to take the gender-specific differences into account in doing so. …
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the true state (of the world) of given cases. The investigation of assessment criteria improves the initial information … updated, allowing for a sorting of particular cases into ever smaller subclasses. However, receiving such information causes …
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