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used in laboratory experiments. We use a field experiment to test whether the game can predict real world investments by …The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and … detect attenuation bias due to measurement error. Subjects'cognitive memory of the game played one year earlier is strongly …
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In this paper we reply to Binmore and Shaked's criticism of the Fehr-Schmidt model of inequity aversion. We put the theory and their arguments into perspective and show that their criticism is not substantiated. Finally, we briefly comment on the main challenges for future research on social...
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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (2004) using an adaptation of the Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism (BDM, Becker et al....
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When an upstream monopolist supplies several competing downstreamfirms, it may fail to monopolize the market because it is unable to commit not to behave opportunistically. We build on previous experimental studies of this well-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the...
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foreclosure in laboratory experiments. In one-shot interactions, upstream firms can choose to build a reputation by revealing …
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decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
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In this paper we experimentally compare three implementations of Winter demand commitment bargaining mechanism: a one-period implementation, a twoperiod implementation with low and with high delay costs. Despite the different theoretical predictions, our results show that the three different...
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I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in …
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experiments with written cheap-talk communication between players and we compare them to treatments without the possibility to …
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