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We investigate whether individual and group risk preferences are dependent on reward delay. To do so, we run a lottery-choice experiment, where payments are made either directly or in 3, 9, or 18 months after the experiment. We find that risk preference is time-dependent for both individuals and...
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financed contributions. We then run experiments to stringently, test our predictions. Loss aversion and present-bias reduce …
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experimentally the effects of discounting differentials in infinitely repeated coordination games. In our data, differential discount … factors play two roles. First, they provide a coordination anchor: more impatient players get higher payoffs first …. Introducing even small discounting differentials reduces coordination failures significantly. Second, with pronounced discounting …
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We present results from a laboratory study of loss aversion in the context of intertemporal choice. We investigate whether the provision of (windfall) endowments results in different elicited discount rates relative to subjects who earn income or earn and retain the income for a period before...
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Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses? relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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In today's highly complex economic environment, cooperation among individuals is crucial for organizational and societal success. Most of the situations in which cooperation is required involve costly efforts whose consequences play out over time. Here, we provide a systematic and comprehensive...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418242
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810735
Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
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