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Overbidding in sealed-bid second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we...
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Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use...
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Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
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Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
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emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may … value that a unit of money buys in lotteries is consumed before the actual resolution in the form of emotions such as hope … thrill is the main variable explaining this choice, that emotions actually experienced during the waiting period are indeed …
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-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than … explained by better reasoning abilities of teams. Emotions play a role in determining bids, but the effect of emotions on …
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emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may … value that a unit of money buys in lotteries is consumed before the actual resolution in the form of emotions such as hope … thrill is the main variable explaining this choice, that emotions actually experienced during the waiting period are indeed …
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