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Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin - 2022
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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Competitive Blind Spots and the Cyclicality of Investment : Experimental Evidence
Rodet, Cortney Stephen - 2020
We report laboratory experiments investigating the cyclicality of profit-enhancing investment in a competitive …
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Patents versus subsidies : a laboratory experiment
Darai, Donja; Großer, Jens; Trhal, Nadja - 2009
price competition. Both stages of the game are implemented in a laboratory experiment and the obtained results support the … ; subsidies ; experiment …
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Investment policy for time-inconsistent discounters
Harstad, Bård - 2013
This paper explores how a principal with time-inconsistent preferences invests optimally in technology or capital. If the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future savings and decrease investments in the strategic...
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Distorted Time Preferences and Time-to-Build in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Industry
Heinzel, Christoph - 2014
We study the welfare-theoretic consequences of diverging social and private time-preference rates and time-to-build for the transition to a low-carbon energy industry. We show that time-to-build, a prevalent characteristic of capital accumulation in the energy sector, amplifies the distortion...
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Underinvestment and Slow Growth : PWBM Concedes Flaws
Simkovic, Michael - 2021
The U.S. economy is growing more slowly than it can and should be growing because it does not invest enough in infrastructure, science, and education. There is an important procedural obstacle to funding public investments — a process of scoring the economic effect of legislation. This process...
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Social Capital and the Social Evaluation of Investments
Jenkins, Glenn P.; Jenkins, Hatice P. - 2002
One outcome of the existence of social capital in a community is that individuals will take into consideration the welfare of other members of the community. If an investment project is undertaken that causes the poorer members of society to increase their consumption of goods and services to...
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Assessing the contribution of investment projects to building a market economy : beyond cost-benefit analysis?
Carbajo Martínez, José C. (contributor) - 2006
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The effect of power imbalances on incentives to make non-contractible investments
Faravelli, Marco; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Rainer, Helmut - In: European economic review : EER 61 (2013), pp. 169-185
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Cost-reducing investments : an experimental approach
Schmutzler, Armin - In: Homo oeconomicus 30 (2013) 2, pp. 183-201
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