University of Minnesota. Ph.D. dissertation. August 2008. Major: Economics. Advisor: Werner, Jan. 1 computer file (PDF … trading patterns are strictly decreasing in agents' confidence in private signals. Interestingly, social communication can ….Chapter 3 develops a multi-period market model to examine the evolution of risk averse agents' confidence degrees in learning …

experimental economics may serve as an important link. Its aim is to integrate the insights of cognitive and social psychologists … contributes to a better understanding of human decision-making. …

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 … zusammenfassen: Neben dem Arbeitsleid und dem Einkommen scheint die Steuerwahrnehmung einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Arbeit-Freizeit-Entscheidung …

), aggregation method (average versus weighted by money, a proxy for confidence), and incentive (not incentive compatible versus … respondents to state their confidence, using my method, which induces the respondents to reveal confidence, there is a sizable and … statically significant positive relationship between confidence and the accuracy of individual-level expectations. This positive …

-planned, also helps overcome an obstacle in prior literature as to whether the decision to sell occurred before or after the …

's effort to avoid a future qualified opinion from the incumbent auditor or to manipulate accounting numbers favorably for the …, especially if they signal managers' confidence for their firms' future financial conditions. By controlling for the motivations …