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We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment … behaviour under risk. We find that both, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally to the effects of … MLA. Longer investment horizons and less frequent feedback lead to higher investments. However, when given the choice …
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We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
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In this paper we experimentally test skewness seeking at the individual level. Several prospects that can be ordered … with respect to the third-degree stochastic dominance (3SD) criterion are ranked by the participants of the experiment. We …
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Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner's Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a...
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In the two-person sequential best shot game, first player 1 contributes to a public good and then player 2 is informed about this choice before contributing. The payoff from the public good is the same for both players and depends only on the maximal contribution. Efficient voluntary cooperation...
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The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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We define and experimentally test a public provision mechanism that meets three basic ethical requirements and allows …
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This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …, and information on behavioral choices and determined the equilibria. We observed that the participants' risk attitudes …
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We perform a comparative analysis of five incentivized tasks used to elicit risk preferences. Theoretically, we compare … homogeneous population, we experimentally investigate the distribution of estimated risk preferences, whether they differ by … maximum likelihood. We find that the estimated risk aversion parameters vary greatly across tasks and that gender differences …
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