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Opinion is divided on whether it is better to have a single world money or variable exchange rates.Pope, Selten and von Hagen (2003) propose that fresh light would be shed via an analysis that allows forseven complexity impacts on the exchange rate that are underplayed (where not entirely...
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The use of video recordings in experimental economics has become increasingly popular. However, little attention is paid to how this might affect the composition of the participating subjects and the intended treatment effect. We make a first attempt to shed light on these issues and address...
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learning, and even idiosyncratic variation. Our paper cautions that the slider task will be underpowered for uncovering a …
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We study how cost-benefit considerations shape the public acceptance of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). In an online experiment conducted on a representative sample from the US during the early COVID-19 pandemic, we provide half of our respondents with research evidence pointing to low...
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The U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently made foreign countries central to his political messages, often conveying animosity. But do foreign citizens react more to the speaker of these messages -- Trump himself -- or their content? More generally, when people are exposed to messages sent...
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In this paper we treat instructions as an experimental variable. Using a public good game, we study how the instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior. We show that longer instructions do not significantly...
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dynamics considerably differ between gain and loss domains. For gains, learning to be comparably ambiguity averse increases the …
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psychology of learning, and work form social scientists on learning.The paper makes the following claim: typically the law … reaches its addressees indirectly. The law is not followed, it is learned. There are two distinct learning objects. Throughout … take the form of schema-like social mirror rules, or of exemplars.Learning also is the key to understanding how individuals …
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Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...
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university students' political attitudes. We disentangle self-selection from learning effects and reveal systematic differences …
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