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This paper experimentally investigates social learning in a two-agent prediction game with both exogenous and endogenous ordering of decisions and a continuous action space. Given that individuals regularly fail to apply rational timing, we refrain from implementing optimal timing of decisions...
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investment, where two privately informed agents have an option to invest at the time of their choice in the presence of waiting … information is time consuming. In accordance with the equilibrium solution, subjects better informed take investment decision …
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This paper proposes a behavioral model of social learning that unies various forms of inferential reasoning in one hierarchy of types. Iterated best responses that are based on uninformative level-0 play lead to the following of the private information (level-1), to the following of the majority...
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by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
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subject’s own behavior in the other role. The results of the experiment indicate that, when acting as senders, the majority of …
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subject's own behavior in the other role. The results of the experiment indicate that, when acting as senders, the majority of …
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laboratory experiment in which apologies emerge endogenously, we find that harmdoers use apologies in particular if they fear …
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subject's own behavior in the other role. The results of the experiment indicate that 60 percent of senders adopt deceptive …
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This paper investigates the effect of different channels of communication on lying behavior. A simple coin flip game with four coin tosses is adapted in which subjects have monetary incentives to misreport their private information. The treatments differ with respect to the communication channel...
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laboratory experiment I examine how confessions work. I analyze whether the willingness to punish harmful failures depends on how …
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