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than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …
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that never yield an efficient allocation. Moreover, our results extend the efficiency of auction mechanisms to an …
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at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and … offline markets. Despite very different strategic implications for buyers and sellers, results from our experiment suggest no …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …
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The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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