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Firm Closure, Financial Losses and the Consequences for an Entrepreneurial Restart

Metzger, Georg - 2008

Many entrepreneurs who close a business are actually willing to venture anew. However, to realize a restart is not only … restart, the aspect of capital acquisition might be particularly precarious for renascent entrepreneurs since business … when losses are incurred by banks. Losses which are incurred privately by the entrepreneurs or by other stakeholders do not …

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Entrepreneurship and Role Models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

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Thar she bursts - Reducing confusion reduces bubbles

Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Stöckl, Thomas - 2011

To explore why bubbles frequently emerge in the experimental asset market model of Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988), we vary the fundamental value process (constant or declining) and the cash-to-asset value-ratio (constant or increasing). We observe high mispricing in treatments with a...

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Does volatility matter? Expectations of price return and variability in an asset pricing experiment

Bottazzi, Giulio; Devetag, Giovanna; Pancotto, Francesca - 2009

We present results of an experiment on expectation formation in an asset market. Participants to our experiment must provide forecasts of the stock future return to computerized utility-maximizing investors, and are rewarded according to how well their forecasts perform in the market. In the...

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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Self-serving dictators

Asheim, Geir B.; Helland, Leif; Hovi, Jon; Hoyland, Bjorn - 2008

We provide experimental evidence of self-serving fairness ideals in a dictator game design that includes treatments where funds can be transferred in two ways to the one player and in one way to the other. Two methods for transferring funds to the recipient produce the same results as the...

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Humans, robots and market crashes: A laboratory study

Feldman, Todd; Friedman, Daniel - 2008

We introduce human traders into an agent based financial market simulation prone to bubbles and crashes. We find that human traders earn lower profits overall than do the simulated agents (robots) but earn higher profits in the most crash-intensive periods. Inexperienced human traders tend to...

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Information and Strategic Voting

Tyszler, Marcelo; Schram, Arthur - 2011

We theoretically and experimentally study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus...

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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants

Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010

While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North America, it has not been extensively used in other contexts such as Turkey. This project seeks to rectify that and explore how Turkish university students informally self...

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The ultimatum game and expected utility maximization: In view of attachment theory

Almakias, Shaul; Weiss, Avi - 2009

In this paper we import a mainstream psycholgical theory, known as attachment theory, into economics and show the implications of this theory for economic behavior by individuals in the ultimatum bargaining game. Attachment theory examines the psychological tendency to seek proximity to another...

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