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Chapter IWe use a large-scale internet experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers that are … experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects …? In our experiment we observe that the subjects almost never use punishment. Consistently, the data shows no increase in …
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Einkommensbesteuerung und deren Wahrnehmung auf die Arbeit-Freizeit-Entscheidungen untersucht wird.Im ersten Experiment des ersten Teils … Laborexperiment sollten die Teilnehmer eine Entscheidung über die genaue Höhe einer Investition treffen. In verschiedenen Treatments … reale Arbeit-Freizeit-Entscheidung treffen.Als zentrales Ergebnis beider Laborexperimente lässt sich Folgendes …
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-order risk preferences. In order to assess whether risk preferences differ for decisions over gains and losses the experiment was … experimentellen Messung der Intensit?t von Risikoaversion vor. Diese Methode basiert auf etablierten theoretischen Konzepten der …, verglichen. Das Experiment macht deutlich, dass die methodologischen Einw?nde empirische Relevanz besitzen, wenn eine …
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Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...
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In a survey of UK consumers, we elicited their willingness-to-accept (WTA) a discount for GM foods and willingness-to-pay (WTP) a premium for non-GM foods in order to assess their valuation of the non-GM characteristic in food products. Mean WTA exceeds mean WTP, a finding that suggests the...
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Prospect theory is a descriptive model of individual decision-making under risk (Kahneman and Tversky 1979). The … central tenet of prospect theory posits that the risk orientation of decision-makers is affected by the gains vs. losses … domain of losses. Although prospect theory made significant contributions to decision theory, it has important limitations …
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, heuristics and biases affect human decision-making. This work adds to these findings by providing empirical evidence for … behavioral patterns in decision-making in a competitive game with uncertainty. The poker environment offers a promising … approaches from decision theory. Furthermore, we show why playing poker is similar to trading in a financial market. After …
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This dissertation studies two interesting business cycle issues. Thefirst issue concerns the effectiveness of tax policies in stimulatingan economic recovery. The second issue concerns the costs ofbusiness cycle fluctuations to an investor who chooses to invest inrisky assets. The first essay...
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We study equilibrium trading strategies, market liquidity, and price efficiency in an economy in which a fraction of better-informed speculators displays preferences consistent with Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979) Prospect Theory, i.e., loss aversion, risk seeking over losses, and nonlinear and...
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