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null hypothesis of subjective expected utility for a majority of subjects. Most of the remaining subjects exhibit …
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Traditionally, real experiments testing subjective expected utility theory take for granted that subjects view the …
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In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper … suggests that utility also depends on people's attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The … results imply, first, that purely outcome-based models of individual utility may be incomplete. Second, that reference …
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The Porter hypothesis suggests that environmental regulations, such as restricting firms to reduce pollution, stimulates innovations and create a win-win situation for the environment and for firms. It has received a great deal of attention from academics as well as bureaucrats who disagree...
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In a large-scale laboratory experiment, we investigate whether subjects’ scores on the cognitivereflection test (CRT) are related to their susceptibility to the base rate fallacy, the conservatismbias, overconfidence, and the endowment eect.
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In the framework of expected utility theory, risk attitudes are entirely capturedby the curvature of the utility … thismodication, one question arises naturally: since both utility and probability weight-ing determine the attitude towards risk …
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Human decision making is a process guided by different and partly competing mo-tivations that can each dominate behavior and lead to different effects depending on strength and circumstances. “Over-stylizing” neglects such competing concerns and context-dependence, although it facilitates...
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This paper reports results of an experiment designed to analyze the link between riskydecisions made by couples and risky decisions made separately by each spouse. We estimateboth the spouses and the couples’ degrees of risk aversion and we assess how the risk preferencesof the two spouses...
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We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects...
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