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Risk ; Large Losses ; Natural Experiment …
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In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...
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Governments in Latin America raise little revenue from property taxation, despite arguments for its efficiency and equity. Adequate registry information would support consistent collection, but registries are costly to establish and maintain. Compared to tax collection, field experimental...
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link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal … findings of this experiment provide an innovative comparison between real choices, and choices made in the presence of …
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The provision of global public goods, such as climate change mitigation and managing fisheries to avoid overharvesting, requires the coordination of national contributions. The contributions are managed by elected governments who, in turn, are subject to public pressure on the matter. In an...
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The results of an experiment extending Ellsberg's setup demonstrate that attitudes towards ambiguity and compound …
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Prize Independence. We design experiments to test Prize Independence and find that a large fraction of our subjects violate …
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We experimentally explore decision-making under uncertainty using a framework that decomposes uncertainty into three distinct layers: (1) physical uncertainty, entailing inherent randomness within a given probability model, (2) model uncertainty, entailing subjective uncertainty about the...
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to an ambiguity averse preference for a randomized act. Building on this insight, we implement an experiment whose design … provides a qualitative test that discriminates between the two classes of models. Among subjects identified as ambiguity …
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We review some of the (theoretical) economic implications of David Schmeidler's models of decision under uncertainty (Choquet expected utility and maxmin expected utility) in competitive market settings. We start with the portfolio inertia result of Dow and Werlang (1992), show how it does or...
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