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effect. Relying on a simple experiment, we investigate which failure of these axioms is concomitant with the empirical …
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A sender chooses ex ante how information will be disclosed ex post. A receiver obtains public information and information disclosed by the sender. Then he takes one of two actions. The sender wishes to maximize the probability that the receiver takes the desired action. I show that the sender...
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more impatient decision maker may experiment more, given lump-sum final payoffs. We show that (a) and (b) are robust to … decisions at each instant: stop or experiment, and then at what level n. The second choice equates the marginal costs and …
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more impatient decision maker may experiment more, given lump-sum final payoffs. We show that (a) and (b) are robust to … decisions at each instant: stop or experiment, and then at what level n. The second choice equates the marginal costs and …
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experiment exploits the potential of the increasingly popular BDM elicitation procedure adopted to lotteries to distort beliefs …
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To identify ambiguity attitudes in general environments, we propose a noncontroversial and easy-to-apply method that first orders beliefs by their "favorableness," and then make inferences based on choices. In our first-price two-person partnership dissolving auction experiments, the partners...
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We report the results of an experiment on selective exposure to information. A decision maker interested in learning … source even when prior beliefs are strongly unbalanced and this source is less informative. Our experiment suggests that base …
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We report an experiment on a decision task by SAMUELSON and BAZERMAN (1985). Subjects submit a bid for an item with an …
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We design an experiment to study how reversible entry decisions are affected by public and private payoff disclosure …
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Do people know their own risk preferences, or do risk choices change with experience and observation? We provide a clean and straightforward test in the laboratory. People make an initial decision concerning a lottery choice and then experience 24 practice periods in which they roll the dice,...
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