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A model of reference-dependent belief updating
Maier, Johannes K.; König, Clemens - 2016
We propose a model of instrumental belief choice under loss aversion. When new information arrives, an agent is prompted to abandon her prior. However, potential posteriors may induce her to take actions that generate a lower utility in some states than actions induced by her prior. These losses...
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Coordination under loss contracts
Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2020
In this paper we study the effects that loss contracts - prepayments that can be clawbacked later - have on group coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In control sessions, incentives are formulated as a...
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Coordination under loss contracts
Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - In: Games and economic behavior 137 (2023), pp. 270-293
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Reference points in renegotiations : the role of contracts and competition
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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To swing or not to swing? : reference point and professional baseball players
Yashiki, Koji; Nakazono, Yoshiyuki - 2020
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On whom would I want to depend; Humans or nature?
Farjam, Mike - 2015
We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation …
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Asset pricing and asymmetric reasoning
Asparouhova, Elena; Bossaerts, Peter L.; Eguia, Jon; … - 2014
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Ambiguity and gender differences in financial decision making : an experimental examination of competence and confidence effects
Gysler, Matthias; Brown-Kruse, Jamie Lynette; Schubert, … - 2002
This paper reports the results of an experiment that brings together psychological measures of competence and … ambiguous lotteries in a financial decision context. The experiment can be viewed in two parts. The first part replicates an … used to explain elicited certainty equivalents in the second part of the experiment. Certainty equivalents were elicited …
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Value Uncertainty Affects Loss Aversion and the Endowment Effect
Gärdenfors, Peter - 2021
A new explanation of loss aversion and the endowment effect is proposed. The model is based on the uncertain values of goods. The key element is that decision makers consider potential new knowledge about the goods they evaluate, in particular in situations when the seller may have more...
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Subjective beliefs and confidence when facts are forgotten
Kopylov, Igor; Miller, Joshua - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty : JRU 57 (2018) 3, pp. 281-299
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