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Schätzung des Risikos der Bevölkerung durch Terroranschläge als Ergänzung für sicherheitsökonomische Betrachtungen
Borst, Dietmar; Werner, Ute - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 101-118
Um politische Entscheidungen zum Umgang mit dem Terrorismus in Deutschland treffen zu können, ist eine eingehende …. Letzteres wurde im Teilprojekt "manmade hazards" der "Risikokarte Deutschland" (www.cedim.de) verfolgt. Die räumliche Abbildung …To provide a foundation for political decisions regarding terrorism in Germany, this risk must be thoroughly analyzed …
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Testing ambiguity theories with a mean-preserving design
Yang, Chun-Lei; Yao, Lan - In: Quantitative Economics 8 (2017) 1, pp. 219-238
experiment where the decision maker draws twice with replacement in the typical Ellsberg two-color urns, but with a different …
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Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes
Lenger, Alexander; Wolf, Stephan; Goldschmidt, Nils - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2020) 2, pp. 315-346
experimental democracy. We design a two-period experiment in which subjects first choose a distributional scheme by majority voting … the effect of social immobility on choosing distributional regimes the experiment is conducted with and without a social … suggest that for this to happen, stakes need to be sufficiently high. To our surprise, other factors like gender, social …
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Bimodal bidding in experimental all-pay auctions
Ernst, Christiane; Thöni, Christian - In: Games 4 (2013) 4, pp. 608-623
We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two extreme information conditions. As predicted by the Nash equilibrium, subjects use mixed...
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Measuring trust in institutions and its causal effect
Penczynski, Stefan P.; Santana, Maria Isabel - In: Quantitative Economics 15 (2024) 1, pp. 213-243
We propose a novel way of measuring trust in institutions, which draws on the experimental method used to elicit time preferences. Our measure is provided in the meaningful metric of the subjective probability of trustworthiness of the trustee. In a lab-in-the-field setting in the Philippines,...
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Ellsberg meets Keynes at an urn
Chew, Soo-Hong; Miao, Bin; Zhong, Songfa - In: Quantitative Economics 14 (2023) 3, pp. 1133-1162
Keynes (1921) and Ellsberg (1961) have articulated an aversion toward betting on an urn containing balls of two colors of unknown proportion to one with a 50-50 composition. Keynes views this as reflecting different preferences for bets arising from different sources of uncertainty. Ellsberg...
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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Frauen messen sich weniger an anderen als Männer, aber kein Unterschied beim Wettbewerb gegen sich selbst
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 22, pp. 431-437
Frauen sind im Durchschnitt seltener bereit, in Wettbewerb mit anderen Personen zu treten als Männer. Dieser Gender Gap … von Frauen und Männern und für weitere Gender Gaps am Arbeitsmarkt. Neue ökonomische Experimente zeigen jedoch, dass …
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The gender gap in competitiveness: Women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …
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Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility: Framing effects in a dictator game
Bruttel, Lisa; Stolley, Florian - In: Games 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-16
depending on the dictator's gender. We find that only men react positively to a text that stresses their responsibility for the …
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