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Social anchor effects in decision-making under ambiguity
Lahno, Amrei M. - 2014
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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Counter intuitive learning : an exploratory study
Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Kirman, Alan P.; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - 2016
The literature on learning in unknown environments emphasises reinforcing on actions which produce positive results. But, in some cases, success requires shifting from a currently successful actions to others. We examine, experimentally and theoretically in a very simple framework, how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517970
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Is Imprecise Knowledge Better than Conflicting Expertise? Evidence from Insurers’ Decisions in the United States
Cabantous, Laure - 2012
Testing whether risk professionals (here insurers) behave differently under risk and ambiguity when they cover catastrophic risks (floods and earthquakes) and non-catastrophic risks (fires), this paper reports the results of the first field experiment in the United States designed to distinguish...
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The Sound of Silence : Observational Learning in the U.S. Kidney Market
Zhang, Juanjuan - 2010
Mere observation of others' choices can be informative about product quality. This paper develops an individual-level dynamic model of observational learning, and applies it to a novel data set from the U.S. kidney market where transplant candidates on a waiting list sequentially decide whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054192
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Does Corporate Insider Trading Predict Natural Disaster Outcomes? Evidence from Tropical Storms in the US
Malik, Ihtisham; Hodgson, Allan; Faff, Robert W.; … - 2022
This study examines the insider trading profitability of the United State (US) firms, during calendar time windows that capture tropical storms over the period 1988-2017. Using event study and multivariate regression analyses, we analyze cumulative abnormal returns following insider trades as a...
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Venture Capital in Clean Energy Innovation Finance : Insights from the U.S. Market during 2005-2014
Rai, Varun - 2015
potential for financial venture capital or public policy to meaningfully reintroduce vigor in CET innovation have been … venture capital in funding innovation in clean energy, especially in light of the lessons learned over the past decade in the … innovation …
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Innovation and Institutions : Rethinking the Economics of U.S. Science and Technology Policy
Frischmann, Brett M. - 2009
The U.S. promotes and produces innovation through a wide range of interdependent institutions, ranging from the grant …" innovation is and in part on how amenable certain types of innovation are to certain forms of institutional provision. To put it … more concretely, (1) innovation is a public good that acts as an input for producing a wide range of dependent goods …
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Productivity dispersion, entry, and growth in U.S. manufacturing industries
Cunningham, Cindy; Foster, Lucia; Grim, Cheryl; … - 2021
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The birth of a new industry: Entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth. The case of encryption software
Giarratana, Marco S. - 2003
Chandlerian perspective, this work reports the main facts about firm entry and growth, with a particular focus on start … firm competitive advantages. This work shows that innovation and product differentiation, along with investments in co …
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The impact of digital channel distribution on the experience goods industry
Khouja, Moutaz; Wang, Yulan - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 207 (2010) 1, pp. 481-491
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