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Absolute groupishness and the demand for information
Lohse, Johannes; McDonald, Rebecca - 2021
Does social identity affect how decision makers consume and digest new information? We study this question through a theoretically informed experiment, employing a variant of the sender receiver game in which receivers can purchase reports from up to two senders. Depending on senders'...
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Climate change and individual behavior
Bernard, René; Tzamourani, Panagiota; Weber, Michael - 2021 - Revised version: February 2022
This paper studies the causal effect of providing information about climate change on individuals' willingness to pay to offset carbon emissions in a randomized control trial. Receiving truthful information about ways to reduce CO2 emissions increases individuals' willingness to pay for CO2...
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Trust and reputation under asymmetric information
Janas, Moritz; Oljemark, Emilia - 2020 - Version: September 10, 2020
We study the role of information about the multiplier in a finitely repeated investment game. A high multiplier … information about the multiplier. We discuss potential reasons for the deviation between theory and experimental data. …
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Why echo chambers are useful
Jann, Ole; Schottmuller, Christoph - 2019
Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into “echo chambers”? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody’s...
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Measuring the costs of short-termism
Davies, Richard; Haldane, Andrew G.; Nielsen, Mette … - In: Journal of financial stability 12 (2014), pp. 16-25
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Discussion of "Uncertainty, investment, and managerial incentives" by Brent Glover and Oliver Levine
Gourio, François - In: Journal of monetary economics 69 (2015), pp. 138-142
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Sabotage in capital budgeting : the effects of control and honesty on investment decisions
Brunner, Markus; Ostermaier, Andreas - In: The European accounting review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 71-100
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Does it really get better with age? : life-cycle patterns of confidence in Germany
Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus - 2019
This paper investigates if and how confidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age … profiles of a novel continuous confidence measure and the probability of overconfidence, conditioning on personality traits … gross wage distribution as our measure of confidence. We find that both the level of confidence and the overconfidence …
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ICO analysts
Barth, Andreas; Laturnus, Valerie; Mansouri, Sasan; … - 2021
Freelancing human experts play an important role in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Expert ratings partially reflect the reciprocal network of ICO members and analysts. Ratings predict ICO success, but highly imperfectly so. Favorably rated ICOs tend to fail when more ratings reciprocate prior...
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Contract design with socially-attentive preferences
Koch, Simon; Sarbu, Miruna; Weinschenk, Philipp - 2019
The standard agency model assumes that the agent does not care how his decisions influence others. This is a strong assumption, which we relax. We find that, although monetary incentives are effective also with sociallyattentive agents, the principal may optimally set none. This could explain...
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