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Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on provider’s choice in Germany. Problem: In Germany, we...
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We present an experimental game in the p-beauty framework. Building on the definitions of boundary and interior equilibria, we distinguish between ‘speed of convergence towards the game-theoretic equilibrium’ and ‘deviations of the guesses from the game-theoretic equilibrium’. In...
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Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary …
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one of the two states. We elicit subjects’ beliefs, risk and other-regarding preferences. Our design also allows us to …, it can be rationalized by accounting for elicited beliefs and other-regarding preferences. Finally, the honest behavior …
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groups, and towards Asian and Western groups. Models of racial beliefs were fitted for the four groups, however we do not …
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We propose two characteristics of players' beliefs and study their role in shaping the set of rationalizable strategy …
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Abstract: The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs. Based on an original survey of...
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neutral states, while negative emotions such as anxiety have the opposite effects. Moreover, beliefs are updated in a way that …
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If asking subjects their beliefs during repeated game play changes the way those subjects play, using those stated … beliefs to evaluate and compare theories of strategic behavior is problematic. We experimentally verify that belief … the goodness of fit of structural models of belief learning, and the prior beliefs implied by such structural models are …
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possibility of regime changes and their beliefs have an impact on the law of motion underlying the macroeconomy. The results … severe. These "beliefs counterfactuals" are new in the literature. Finally, the paper provides a Bayesian algorithm to handle …
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