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The effects of procedures on decision making : experimental evidence
Mertins, Vanessa - 2009
, as well as those of experimental economists, with neoclassical economic theory. The dissertation is divided into two …
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Der Einfluss von Steuern auf Investitions- und Arbeitsangebotsentscheidungen - Experimentelle Analysen zur Wahrnehmung der Steuerbelastung
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
investment behavior which is consistent with theory. However, an income tax with a limited or unlimited loss offset provision …
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Design of Discrete Auction
Sujarittanonta, Pacharasut - 2010
Chapter 1: Efficient Design of an Auction with Discrete Bid Levels This paper studies one of auction design issues: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than one bidder who submits the same bid, the auction cannot...
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Dynamic decision making and race games
De, Shipra - 2011
Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...
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Do individual judgment biases diminish in markets?
Sonnemann, Ulrich - 2009
Psychologische Studien haben gezeigt, dass sich individuelle Wahrscheinlichkeitseinschätzungen für ein bestimmtes Ereignis in Abhängigkeit von der gewählten Zerlegung des Zustandsraumes systematisch voneinander unterscheiden können (ein als „Partitionsabhängigkeit“ bekannter...
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FORECASTING: EXPECTATIONS, INTENTIONS, AND CONFIDENCE
Rothschild, David Michael - 2011
All three articles in my dissertation gather information from individuals, analyze it, and aggregate that information into forecasts of upcoming events. The motivation is to make forecasts more efficient (accurate and timely), more versatile (provide the most useful information for each...
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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions
Powell, Adam C. - 2011
theoretical comparisons are conducted. In the first, economic theory, behavioral theory (the Behavioral Theory of the Firm and … Prospect Theory), and Bounded Rationality are tested as potential determinants of acquisition uncertainties. In the second …, economic theory and Prospect Theory are tested as potential determinants of the value of the machine acquired.To answer these …
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Essays on the Information Acquisition of Doubt-Prone Decision Makers
alaoui, larbi - 2010
There are many situations in which individuals have a choice of whether or not to observe the eventual outcome. In these instances, individuals often prefer to avoid observing the outcome. The standard von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) Expected Utility model cannot accommodate these cases, since it...
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The Impact of Salient Privacy Information on Decision-Making
Tsai, Janice Y. - 2009
People value their privacy; however, they typically do not make the protection of their privacy a priority. Privacy is oftentimes not tangible, complicating the efforts of technology users to express and act according to their privacy needs. Additionally, people may not be fully aware of the...
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Punish in Public
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006
Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here...
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