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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307931
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281521
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental investigation
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286341
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Flipping a coin : theory and evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014 - rev.
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments our participants often choose a stochastically dominated lottery between outcomes, contradicting most theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350796
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Why Votes Have a Value
Dittmann, Ingolf; Kübler, Dorothea; Maug, Ernst; … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2007
We perform an experiment where subjects pay for the right to participate in a shareholder vote. We find that experimental subjects are willing to pay a significant premium for the voting right even though there should be no such premium in our setup under full rationality. Private benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677946
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Hochschulzulassungen in Deutschland: Wem hilft die Reform durch das "Dialogorientierte Serviceverfahren"?
Hüber, Frank; Kübler, Dorothea - 2011
decentralized matching markets such as multiple applications, late rejections of offers, and universities unable to fill all their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307743
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Flipping a Coin: Theory and Evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments the participants often choose lotteries between allocations, which contradicts most theories of choice such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352389
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Flipping a coin: Theory and evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments our participants often choose a stochastically dominated lottery between outcomes, contradicting most theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352469
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Telling the truth may not pay off: an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264992
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Telling the truth may not pay off: an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268885