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We propose a new paradigm to study coordination in complex social systems, such as financial markets, that accounts for fundamental uncertainty. This new context has features from prediction markets that have been shown previously to mitigate price bubbles in classical asset market experiments....
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uncertainty. We designed a multi-period experiment in which each period consisted of two stages, an R&D phase and a pricing stage …. Participants in the experiment had almost no information about the underlying functions, parameters, and probabilities. Subjects …' behavior in the fundamentally uncertain environment of our experiment may best be characterized as some kind of procedural …
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Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collective action and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situations cooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation,...
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Underlying preferences are often considered to be persistent, and are important inputs into economic models. We first conduct an extensive review of the disparate literature studying the stability of preferences measured in experiments. Then, we test the stability of individuals' choices in...
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We study risk taking on behalf of others in an experiment on a large random sample. The decision makers in our … experiment are facing high-powered incentives to increase the risk on behalf of others through hedged compensation contracts or …
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Many of the most significant risks that people face in their lives are left-skewed, i.e., imply large losses with only small probability. I characterize skewness in binary risks, which are widely applied in both economic models and experiments. Moreover, I provide an explicit re-parametrization...
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microfinance experiment. I show that when prospective borrowers are offered a flexible choice of different loan types (here …
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prices can be measured through the context of the indirect utility function (IUF) using a lab experiment. First, the paper … experiment using a series of relevant statistical tests. This study uses the multiple price list (MPL) method, which has been one …
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