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It’s Not My Money : An Experiment on Risk Aversion and the House-Money Effect
Martinez, Luis R. - 2010
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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Who Cooperates? Reciprocity and the Causal Effect of Expected Cooperation in Representative Samples
Bechtel, Michael M.; Scheve, Kenneth - 2017
a novel between-subjects experiment. The experiment varied expectations about cooperation by others. We find that higher …
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Incentives for subjects in internet experiments
Dürsch, Peter (contributor); Oechssler, Joerg (contributor) - 2008
Internet experiments are a new and convenient way for reaching a large subject pool. Yet, providing incentives to subjects can be a tricky design issue. One cost effective and simple method is the publication of a high score (as in computer games). We test whether a high score provides adequate...
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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25
Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...
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Herding with and without payoff externalities : an internet experiment
Drehman, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2005
experiment with more than 6000 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm. We also …
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Herding and contrarian behavior in financial markets : an internet experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2004 - Revised version: June 2004, First version: November 2002
Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004: We report results of an internet experiment … designed to test the theory of informational cascades in financial markets (Avery and Zemsky, AER, 1998). More than 6400 … subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm, participated in the experiment. As …
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003
with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit … people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled …
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Credit Spreads : An Empirical Analysis on the Informational Content of Stocks, Bonds, and CDS
Forte, Santiago - 2012
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between stock market implied credit spreads, CDS spreads, and bond spreads. A general VECM representation is proposed for changes in the three credit spread measures which accounts for zero, one, or two independent cointegration equations, depending...
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Acceptance of distributional axioms : experimental findings
Harrison, M. E.; Seidl, Christian - 1990
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