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from social dilemma experiments and inequality aversion theories that sweeping empirical claims should be avoided …
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Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
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We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...
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Many modern organisations collect data on individuals' personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
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If a decision maker, in a world of uncertainty à la Anscombe and Aumann (1963), can choose acts according to some objective probability distribution (by throwing dice for instance) from any given set of acts, then there is no set of acts that allows an experimenter to test more than the Axiom...
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In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: "which might be the 'best' method for eliciting such preferences?". It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that different...
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experiments and survey questions. We find a high degree of aggregate consistency across elicitation methods, but large … laboratory experiments is unfeasible. …
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A continuing goal of experiments is to understand risky decisions when the decisions are important. Often a decision …
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individual ambiguity preferences, the experimental economics literature advocates using incentivized laboratory experiments. Yet …, laboratory experiments are costly, time-consuming and require substantial administrative effort. This study develops an … laboratory experiments is impractical. This toolkit may have wide applications, including end-of-session lab questionnaires …
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