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measure the self-confidence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. The best female students and students … and high-SES students. By matching our survey data with administrative data on real college applications and admissions … randomized intervention that corrects students' under-and overconfidence by informing them of their real rank in the grade …
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laboratory experiment, as we observe convergence to the Nash equilibrium values at the aggregate as well as at the individual …
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We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social … Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with … different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of …
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We study both theoretically and experimentally the complete set of Nash equilibria of a classical one-dimensional, majority rule election game with two candidates, who might be interested in power as well as in ideology, but not necessarily in the same way. Apart from obtaining the well known...
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price competition. Both stages of the game are implemented in a laboratory experiment and the obtained results support the … ; subsidies ; experiment …
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Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms...
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We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Partici- pants interact with their …
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by utilizing an information experiment embedded in a large-scale household survey conducted in the Gran Área …
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An experimental approach is used to examine the performance of three different multi-unit auction designs: discriminatory, uniform-price with fixed supply, and uniform-price with endogenous supply. We find that the strategies of the individual bidders and the aggregate demand curves are...
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the context of a survey experiment in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Results show that providing detailed …
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