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Information Mirages and Financial Contagion in Asset Market Experiment
Noussair, Charles; Xu, Yilong - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
We study financial contagion in an experimental market. There are two assets and an exogenous shock reduces the value of one of the two assets. Whether and how the other asset is affected depends on the correlation between the underlying values of the two assets. In some trials, the...
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Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, and Financial Decisions
Noussair, Charles; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Kuilen, Gijs van de - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
We conduct an experiment to study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance, in a … individual’s level of prudence is predictive of his wealth, saving, and borrowing behavior outside of the experiment, while …
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The Dark Side of Monetary Bonuses : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Gonzalez, Victor - 2020
performance. Results from a laboratory experiment corroborate this prediction. This paper highlights the limits of monetary …
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A Futures Market Reduces Bubbles but Allows Greater Profit for More Sophisticated Traders
Noussair, Charles; Tucker, Steven J.; Xu, Yilong - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2014
the asset can be traded. Our experiment has two treatments, one in which a spot market operates on its own, and a second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937935
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Paying with Self-Chosen Goals : Incentives and Gender Differences
Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Noussair, Charles; Gonzalez … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015
Abstract: To boost employees’ performance, firms often offer monetary bonuses when production goals are reached. However, the evidence suggests that the particular level of a goal is critical to the effectiveness of this practice. Goals must be challenging yet achievable. Computing optimal...
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Do People Maximize Quantiles?
de Castro, Luciano I.; Galvao, Antonio F.; Noussair, Charles - 2020
an experiment that aims to (1) compare how common quantile decision making is relative to expected utility maximization …, and (2) estimate risk attitude parameters under the assumption of quantile preferences. The experiment has two parts. In … quantile preference model outperforms expected utility for a considerable minority, 30%--50%, of participants, depending on the …
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De l'opinion publique aux comportements des consommateurs. Faut-il une filière sans ogm?
Noussair, Charles; Robin, Stéphane; Ruffieux, Bernard - In: Revue économique 54 (2003) 1, pp. 47-69
genetically modified organisms in the food supply. We report the results of an economic experiment in which we elicited … thresholds. We also present the data from a survey of public opinion on the same subject. Participants in both the experiment and …
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A Future Market Reduces Bubbles but Allows Greater Profit for More Sophisticated Traders
Noussair, Charles; Tucker, S.; Xu, Yilong - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
the asset can be traded. Our experiment has two treatments, one in which a spot market operates on its own, and a second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144459
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Time as a Medium of Reward in Three Social Preference Experiments
Noussair, Charles; Stoop, J.T.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: We report results from three well-known experimental paradigms, where we use time, rather than money, as the salient component of subjects’ incentives. The three experiments, commonly employed to study social preferences, are the dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game....
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Risk Aversion and Religion
Noussair, Charles; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Kuilen, Gijs van de - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: Using a dataset for a demographically representative sample of the Dutch population, containing a revealed preference risk attitude measure, as well as very detailed information about participants’ religious background, we study three issues raised in previous literature. First, we...
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