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Imperfect recall and time inconsistencies : an experimental test of the absentminded driver “paradox”

Levati, M. Vittoria; Uhl, Matthias; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010

. -- imperfect recall ; absentmindedness ; dynamic inconsistency ; experiment …

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Do women panic more than men? : an experimental study on financial decision

Kiss, Hubert J.; Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael; Rosa-Garcia, … - 2014

We report experimental evidence on gender differences in financial decision that involves three depositors choosing between waiting or withdrawing their money from a common bank. We find that the position in the line, the fact of being observed and the observed decisions are key determinants to...

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Coordination under loss contracts

Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2020

In this paper we study the effects that loss contracts - prepayments that can be clawbacked later - have on group coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In control sessions, incentives are formulated as a...

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Dissolving an ambiguous partnership

Oechssler, Joerg; Roomets, Alex - 2023

by a draw from an Ellsberg urn. In a within-subject experiment, subjects make decisions in three different bargaining …

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Cognitive hierarchies and the centipede game

Bottero, Margherita - 2010 - Rev. October 1, 2010

evaluated empirically using laboratory data borrowed from a previously published experiment. The paper features two main …

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Focus Theory of Choice : Modeling Procedural Rationality and Resolving the St. Petersburg, Allais, and Ellsberg Paradoxes, Preference Reversals, the Event-Splitting Effect, and the...

Guo, Peijun - 2017

We present a decision theory which models and axiomatizes a decision-making procedure. This procedure involves two steps: in the first step, for each action, some specific event which can bring about a relatively high outcome with a relatively high probability or a relatively low outcome with a...

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Immoral Criminals? An Experimental Study of Social Preferences Among Prisoners

Birkeland, Sigbjørn - 2011

experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the … holds when the two groups interact. Data from a large internet experiment, matched with official criminal records, suggest … that our main finding from the lab experiment is not influenced by the additional scrutiny experienced by participants in …

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