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This paper examines the influence of government transparency on changing views regarding nuclear energy before and after Japan’s natural and nuclear disaster of 2011. Individual level data were used, covering 45 countries and containing 27,423 observations. It was observed in the majority of...
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We experimentally investigate the effect of social identification and information feedback on individual behavior in …. Identifying subjects through photo display decreases wasteful effort. Providing information feedback about others’ effort does not … improved information feedback decreases the heterogeneity of effort. …
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We experimentally investigate the impact of visibility of contributors and cost of information on public good …, even when viewing contributors’ information is costly. This effect holds even though the identities of contributors are …
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This paper addresses the impact information has on electoral accountability in a legislative system based on seniority … using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …. Voter information about incumbent behavior is varied across experimental treatments, and I find that information leads to …
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fiscal policies. We also examine the interplay of children’s pestering power as well as information about the fiscal policies … choose healthier food products, (b) that providing information regarding the food fiscal policies in place can further …
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Many financial studies are based on the efficient capital markets hypothesis. In this context, testing the existence of this concept becomes an interesting field of study for the emerging capital market. The aim of this paper is to enlighten the difficulties of portfolio construction in a...
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loan with the highest NPV. The reason should be a considerable lack of information about the usage of APR: participants … considering effects of information availability. …
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interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate …. Second, I only provide mothers with information without incentivizing the workers. Third, I combine the first two treatments …. This helps us identify if performance pay and public information are complements or substitutes in reducing child …
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kens; one that ranks objective, and the other subjective information. With the first, we create a new semantic operation … that allows us to derive agreement theorems even when decision functions are based on interactive information (for any r … ≥ 0). Effectively, this operation, unlike information cell union captures the notion of an agent becoming “more ignorant …
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This paper addresses the interaction of voter information and seniority on electoral accountability. We test whether … information leads voters to be less tolerant of moral hazard in a legislative system favoring seniority. A simple game theoretic … themselves at the expense of voters. Voter information about incumbent behavior is varied across experimental treatments. We find …
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