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. We reexamine this issue with an experiment that accounts for possible confounds in prior insurance experiments. Our … extent underinsurance for catastrophic risk is observed in the field, it can be attributed to factors other than the relative …
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-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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Economic theory predicts that in a first-price auction with equal and observable valuations, bidders earn zero profits. Theory also predicts that if valuations are not common knowledge, then since it is weakly dominated to bid your valuation, bidders will bid less and earn positive profits....
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We report on an experiment in which subjects choose actions in strategic games with either strategic complements or … substitutes against a granny, a game theorist or other subjects. The games are selected in order to test predictions on the …
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Roughly one half of World's languages are in danger of extinction. The endangered languages, spoken by minorities, typically compete with powerful languages such as En- glish or Spanish. Consequently, the speakers of minority languages have to consider that not everybody can speak their...
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others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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evidence on the effects of transparency and empowerment on trust (investment by a principal) and trustworthiness (reciprocal … behavior of an agent) in a simple two-person investment game. We find that when principals are empowered by being able to … punish agents who may not act in a way the principal believes is in the principal’s best interest, trust and investment …
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. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we …
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We present an experimental test of a shirking model where monitoring intensity is endogenous and effort a continuous … maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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laboratory experiment to study the elements and dynamics of this type of institution. Peer-to-peer reciprocity is important, and … having the ability to practice targeted reciprocity in our experiment increases contributions to the public good by 14 … settings. People thus excluded from the Òcircle of givingÓ provide a clean and strict test of indirect reciprocity, since they …
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