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We investigate the trade-off between the opportunity costs of decisions and their quality in a simple model. In a lab experiment, we introduce exogenous variation in the opportunity costs of time. Contrary to claims in the previous literature, we show that using more time when making small-stake...
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity. In a between-subjects design I vary whether subjects learn choices made individually by a "peer" in a first part when facing the same task a second time, and whether prospects...
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they model the choice of different alternatives through high or low cognitive costs and feedback information provided to …
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We use a laboratory experiment to study how mutual payoff information affects play in strategic settings. Subjects play … the Prisoner's Dilemma or Stag Hunt game against randomly re-matched opponents under two information treatments. In our … partial-information treatment subjects are shown only their own payoffs, while in our full-information treatment they are …
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In an information cascade experiment participants are confronted with artificial predecessors predicting in line with … coinciding predictions of predecessors are observed, regardless of whether additional information is revealed by these …
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We study how information affects equilibria and welfare in games. For an agent, more precise information about an … obtain either a non-increasing mean or a non-decreasing-mean spread of actions whenever information precision increases for … environments. In persuasion games, we derive sufficient conditions that lead to extremal disclosure of information. In …
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Depending on the context at hand, people's preference for receiving feedback might differ. Especially in allocation decisions that directly concern another individual, feedback from the affected person can have positive or negative value. We study such preferences in a laboratory experiment by...
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payoffs are public information, the ensuing free-rider problem is so severe that the equilibrium number of experiments is at … most one plus the number of experiments that a single agent would perform. When payoffs are private information and players …
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Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one's situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives equal...
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This paper investigates if and how other-regarding preferences governing giving decisions in dictator games are affected in risky environments in which the payoff of the recipient is random. We demonstrate that, whenever the risk is actuarially neutral, the donation of dictators with a purely ex...
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