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Majoritarian contests with asymmetric battlefields : an experiment
Montero, María; Possajennikov, Alexandre; Sefton, Martin; … - 2013
choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
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College admissions with entrance exams : centralized versus decentralized
Hafalir, Isa E.; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2016
of the theory are supported by a lab experiment designed to test the theory, yet we find a number of differences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437881
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College admissions with entrance exams : centralized versus decentralized
Hafalir, Isa E.; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2014
We theoretically and experimentally study a college admissions problem in which colleges accept students by ranking students' efforts in entrance exams. Students hold private information regarding their ability level that affects the cost of their efforts. We assume that student preferences are...
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College admissions with entrance exams : centralized versus decentralized
Hafalir, Isa; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2018
theory are supported by a lab experiment designed to test the theory, yet we find a number of differences that render DCA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138431
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Contests with incumbency advantages: An experiment investigation of the effect of limits on spending behavior and outcome
Otsubo, Hironori - 2012
This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest where two candidates, an incumbent and a challenger, compete for office in terms of the amount of campaign expenditure. The candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent...
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Eigennutz als Triebfeder des Wohlstands: Die "invisible hand" - im Hörsaal-Experiment sichtbar gemacht
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2002
zumindest ihre grundlegenden Verhaltenshypothesen testen zu können. Dieser Beitrag stellt ein einfaches Hörsaal-Experiment vor …, das Adam Smiths Hypothese von der "unsichtbaren Hand" im Marktgeschehen empirisch überprüft. Das Experiment zeigt zudem …, wie Wettbewerb als Entdeckungsverfahren funktioniert, und besitzt hohen didaktischen Wert: Die Studenten erhalten Einblick …
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Papers in experimental economics
Smith, Vernon L. - 1991 - 1. publ.
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Reasoning and Institutions: Do Markets Facilitate LogicalReasoning in the Wason Selection Task?
Budescu, David V.; Maciejovsky, Boris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
A vast literature shows that individuals frequently fail to identify the normative solutionsin logical reasoning tasks. Much attention has been devoted to the study ofthese deviations at the individual level; less effort was exerted to investigate whetherinstitutional settings might facilitate...
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Competition on common value markets with nai͏̈ve traders : a theoretical and experimental analysis
Chlaß, Nadine (contributor); Güth, Werner (contributor) - 2007
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Tournaments, fairness, and risk
Wu, Steven; Roe, Brian - In: American journal of agricultural economics 88 (2006) 3, pp. 561-573
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