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Trust is an important driver of economic transactions, but how do people decide whom to trust? We conduct an experiment …
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We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
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We report the results from a set of experiments conducted to test the effect of ambiguity on individual behaviour in games of strategic complements and strategic substitutes. We test whether subjects' perception of ambiguity differs when faced by a local opponent as opposed to a foreign one....
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Many important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence that stress influences decision making, but still very little is known about whether individual attitudes to risk change with exposure to acute stress. To directly evaluate the...
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This paper attempts to identify behavioral patterns and compare their average success considering several criteria of bounded rationality. Experimentally observed choice behavior in various decision tasks is used to assess heterogeneity in how individual participants respond to 15 randomly...
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within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …
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a company takeover experiment, groups placed better bids than individuals and substantially reduced the winner's curse …
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This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of individual attitudes towards ambiguity, based on laboratory experiments. The design of the analysis allows to capture individual behavior across various levels of ambiguity, ranging from low to high. Attitudes towards risk and attitudes towards...
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We conduct a controlled laboratory experiment in which subjects dynamically choose to allocate their portfolio between … purchasing the bet throughout the experiment. Among the latter group, purchases are most frequent when subjects are rich and when …
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