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Anti-Western Conspiracy Thinking and Expectations of Collusion : Evidence from Russia and China
Libman, Alexander - 2015
Anti-Western conspiracies are frequently used by governments to strengthen their power. We investigate the impact of conspiracy thinking on expectations of collusion among individuals in Russia and China. For this purpose, we conduct a novel laboratory experiment to measure expectations of...
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years : Experimental Evidence
Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - 2022
Several small, short-term, or non-experimental studies show that cognitive behavioral-informed trainings reduce antisocial behaviors for 1–2 years. But there is no large-scale, long-term research on persistence. We follow 999 high-risk men in Liberia 10 years after randomization into: 8 weeks...
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Delegation and Team Selection in Organizations : An Experimental Study
Hamman, John - 2018
We model a managerial decision environment in which a manager both determines the skill heterogeneity of her workers and determines whether to retain or delegate the ability to allocate tasks. The manager prefers delegating when uncertainty is sufficiently high relative to the incentive conflict...
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Financial Literacy and the Design of Retirement Plans
Dvorak, Tomas - 2011
participants show fairly good knowledge of the basic mechanics of the plan, but are unable to differentiate among various … investment options. Knowledge is particularly low among women, low income and low education employees. We also find some evidence … that personal contributions lead to more knowledge. These results support plan designs that have few investment options and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119182
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Negotiation under the curse of knowledge
Pierrot, Thibaud - 2019
An individual is affected by the curse of knowledge when he fails to appreciate the viewpoint of a lesser … knowledge. This systematic cognitive bias alters many predictions derived from game theory which involve an asymmetry of … information between the players. We investigate in this article how the curse of knowledge modifies individual behaviours in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104838
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Negotiation under the curse of knowledge
Pierrot, Thibaud - 2019 - Revised November 2019
An individual is affected by the curse of knowledge when he fails to appreciate the viewpoint of a lesser … knowledge. This systematic cognitive bias alters many predictions derived from game theory which involve an asymmetry of … information between the players. We investigate in this article how the curse of knowledge modifies individual behaviours in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129125
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Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games
Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 21 (2018) 3, pp. 673-691
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Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games
Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2017
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Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games
Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2015
Does monitoring past conduct facilitate intertemporal cooperation? We designed an experiment characterized by strategic uncertainty and multiple equilibria where coordinating on the efficient outcome is a challenge. Participants, interacting anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713674
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Returns to Capital in Microenterprises:Evidence from a Field Experiment
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries.The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms haveproductive investment opportunities and can enjoy high returns to capital if given theopportunity...
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