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We report three repetitions of Falk and Kosfeld's (2006) C5 and C10 treatments whose results largely conflict with those of the original study. We mainly observe hidden costs of control of low magnitude which lead to low-trust principal-agent relationships. We also report an extension where...
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. -- Information cascades ; Laboratory experiments ; Naive herding …
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This paper examines the occurrence and fragility of information cascades in laboratory experiments. One group of low … private information. In line with existing experiments on information cascades, we find some evidence that low informed …
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; Mixed strategy ; Learning models ; Experiments …
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experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the … therefore demonstrates that most participants' behaviour in dictator experiments can be explained by a combination of …
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recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games … planner" experiments or experiments under a "veil of ignorance" (Rawls 1971) can be used to recover larger parts of the notion … necessarily incentive-compatible, and to recover a greater part of an individual's preference relation in dictator experiments …
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We revisit the economic models of social learning by assuming that individuals update their beliefs in a non-Bayesian way. Individuals either overweigh or underweigh (in Bayesian terms) their private information relative to the public information revealed by the decisions of others and each...
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learning in information cascade experiments. He concludes that participants perform poorly when learning from others and that … rejected, but we measure a much larger success of social learning. -- Information Cascades ; Laboratory Experiments ; Quantal …
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