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-theoretic model and provide results from a laboratory experiment to address these questions. In line with the theoretical predictions …, employers often hire via employee referrals, which in turn mitigates adverse selection and elevates wages. Importantly … offering higher wages, even when hiring on the competitive market. We also find that employers' risk aversion and the dynamic …
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The completeness axiom of choice has been questioned for long, and in response, theoretical models of decision making allowing for incomplete preferences have been developed. So far the theoretical accomplishments have however not been paired with empirical evidence on the actual existence of...
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We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...
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This discussion paper has resulted in the publication (2007) 'Order without law? Experimental evidence on voluntary cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft, 90, 1-2, 140-155.In this paper we discuss experimental evidence...
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choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when …
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To accurately predict behavior economists need reliable measures of individual time preferences and attitudes toward risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount...
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interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
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which differentiates our experiment from previous ones. We control, first, for inter-individual performance differences …
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