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Using a comprehensive database of American prisoners of war during World War II, we find that survival from captivity generally declines as the hierarchy of a prisoner's group becomes steeper or more closely matches the military's established hierarchy. There is no evidence that survival is...
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experiments show that wishful betting contaminates beliefs in laboratory financial markets because wishful betters appear to …
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We present a novel methodology for identifying public knowledge and eliminating the biases it creates when aggregating information in small group settings. A two-stage mechanism consisting of an information market and a coordination game is used to reveal and adjust for individuals' public...
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This paper analyzes the interactions between competitive (wholesale) spot, retail, and forward markets and vertical … integration in electricity markets. We develop an equilibrium model with producers, retailers, and traders to study and quantify … the impact of forward markets and vertical integration on prices, risk premia, and retail market shares. We point out that …
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Organizations and markets are defined as sets of people who are connected together by the logical orders of decision … of value in the analysis of organizations and markets. The concept of the decision rule is used to define static … organization structures, and to define dynamic task processes in them. Generalizations about organizations and markets are …
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investors and firms in sophisticated markets. Long-term relationships between intermediaries and their customers, in which …, intermediaries allow firms and investors to reap the benefits of financial markets. Relationships are easiest to sustain when the …
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In this paper, we investigate how market competition contributes to the expression of overconfidence among those competing for influence. We find evidence that market competition exacerbates the tendency to express excessive confidence. This evidence comes from experiments in which advisors...
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