The standard assumption in social learning environments is that agents learn from others through choice outcomes. We argue that in many settings, agents can also infer information from others' response times (RT), which can increase efficiency. To investigate this, we conduct a standard...

Human judgments are systematically affected by various biases and distortions. The main goal of our study is to analyze the effects of five well-documented behavioral biases—namely, the disposition effect, herd behavior, availability heuristic, gambler’s fallacy and hot hand fallacy—on the...

Many facts are learned through the intermediation of individuals with special access to information, such as law enforcement officers, employees with a security clearance, or experts with specific knowledge. This paper considers whether societies can learn about such facts when information is...

Markowitz (1952) hat gezeigt, dass es für risikoaverse Wirtschaftssubjekte sinnvoll ist, das Vermögen auf verschiedene Anlageinstrumente zu verteilen. Doch erweist sich in der Praxis, dass Wirtschaftssubjekte häufig nicht-optimal diversifizierte Portfolios halten. Es gibt viele mögliche...

The paper reports the result of an experimental game on asset integration and risk taking. We find some evidence that winnings in earlier rounds affect risk taking in subsequent rounds, but no evidence that real life wealth outside the experiment affects risk taking. Controlling for past...