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How Do People Learn by Listening to Others? Experimental Evidence from Thailand
Healy, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents experimental evidence about how individuals learn from information that comes from inside versus outside their ethnic group. In the experiment, Thai subjects observed information that came from Americans and other Thais that they could use to help them answer a series of...
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Social anchor effects in decision-making under ambiguity
Lahno, Amrei M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
dynamics considerably differ between gain and loss domains. For gains, learning to be comparably ambiguity averse increases the …
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Payments or persuasion: common pool resource management with price and non-price measures
Delaney, Jason J.; Jacobson, Sarah - Economics Department, Williams College - 2013
We use lab experiments to study policies that address common pool resource overuse. We look at a price mechanism, specifically a Pigouvian subsidy, and four non-price interventions. The non-price policies are information alone, information with a normative message, communication alone, and...
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The Role of Information Feedback in Local Reserve Energy Auction Markets
Madlener, Reinhard; Rosen, Christiane - Institut für Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior … - 2013
last couple of decades, several studies on feedback information in games and its role in learning have been conducted. Some … of the most notable ones are the results in learning direction theory (Selten & Stoecker, 1986), impulse balance theory … learning and the change in bidder behavior for the divisible good auction case. However, the impact of the competitive …
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Peer Effects in Risk Taking
Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - CESifo - 2012
We examine peer effects in risk taking with complete information and compare explanations for peer effects based on relative payoff concerns to explanations that allow peer choices to matter. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice,...
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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games
Langenbach, Pascal - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2014
In the dictator game, the recipient’s opportunity to send a message to the dictator increases giving. The effect is equally strong if the message is written before or after the dictator has decided (experiment 1). Recipients have a stronger willingness to pay for ex-ante communication, however...
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The Power of Reasoning: Experimental Evidence
Dugar, Subhasish; Bhattacharya, Haimanti - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2008
This paper presents an experimental investigation of how a systematic variation in the cognitive demands on subjects affects the optimal play. The innovation of this paper is the choice of a game, which we call the Game of Position. This is a two-player zero-sum game characterized by a...
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Private versus Public Feedback - The Incentive Effects of Symbolic Awards
Gerhards, Leonie; Siemer, Neele - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
We experimentally compare the incentive effects of rewarding individuals for outstanding performance publicly versus privately. We implement two real-effort tasks, which differ in how prestigious subjects perceive working on them. In both tasks private and public feedback similarly enhances...
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Self-Control, Commitment and Peer Pressure: A Laboratory Experiment
Bonein, Aurélie; Denant-Boèmont, Laurent - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2013
This paper focuses on the relationship between individual self-control and peer pressure. To this end, we implement a laboratory experiment that proceeds in two parts. The first part involves an individual real-effort task in which subjects may commit themselves to achieve a certain level of...
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How Effective are Pay-for-Performance Incentives for Physicians? – A Laboratory Experiment
Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Kairies, … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
Recent reforms in health care have introduced a variety of pay-for-performance programs using financial incentives for physicians to improve the quality of care. Their effectiveness is, however, ambiguous as it is often difficult to disentangle the effect of financial incentives from the ones of...
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