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Internet experiments are a new and convenient way for reaching a large subject pool. Yet, providing incentives to … games). We test whether a high score provides adequate and non-distortionary incentives by comparing it to the usual … performance based incentives. We find significant differences and conclude that high scores are not always appropriate as an …
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experiment with 66 students to measure the house-money effect on their risk preferences. They received an amount of money with … group got it the day of the experiment. We find that, when facing possible losses, people in the treatment group showed a … behave according to expected-utility theory, the risk-attitude adjustment corresponds to an average increase of 1 in their …
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stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence on two important choices made by …
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gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory experiment that varies whether the decision to compete, and its outcome …
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gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory experiment that varies whether the decision to compete, and its outcome …
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
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gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory experiment that varies whether the decision to compete, and its outcome …
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to lower prices for copyrights. More copyrights trade. The buyers perceive less ex-post unfairness. -- experiment …
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corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …
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