We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. No gender differences are found comparing competitive performance with non-competitive performance in either a...

L'article étudie l'effet de signal d'une promotion par réduction de prix, c'est-à-dire l'effet de la simple communication de la promotion. Un modèle d'utilité individuelle sur des données empiriques de type Gabor et Granger met en évidence que le simple ajout de la mention de "promotion"...

We report on experimental markets for a contingent claim asset that eight subjects traded for nine periods before the state was revealed. There is an informative binary signal that arrives after each of the first eight trading rounds. In our baseline treatment the realization of the signal is...