The paper presents evidence that validate the focusing illusion. Specifically, the forecasted impact of a basketball championship on students’ subjective well-being was exaggerated because of their intense focus on the event. However, the self-reported states of being for life domains not...

We compare two manipulative forces from our daily shopping environment: store environment and advertising. Deviating from existing studies in the literature, we isolate store environment and advertising by using a simple experimental design, and we use a revealed preference methodology for...

We study the effects of deposit insurance and observability of previous actions on the emergence of bank runs by means of a controlled laboratory experiment. We consider three depositors in the line of a bank, who decide between withdrawing or keeping their money deposited. We have three...

This paper considers the effects of the opportunity to change partners on communication. We experiment a standard cheap talk game where a player observes a private forecast before disclosing it (truthfully or untruthfully) in a message that he/she sends to his/her partner. Two treatments are...

In this paper I examine the relationship between Pareto-optimality and group size in linear public goods games or experiments. In particular, I use the standard setting of homogeneous linear public goods experiments and apply a recently developed tool to identify all Pareto-optimal allocations...

A közgazdaságtani modellek túlnyomó részében az embereket kizárólag az önérdekkövetés jellemzi: nincsenek tekintettel mások jólétére. A valóságban azonban ez a viselkedés igencsak ritka. Az önzés feltevésén alapuló modellek sikerének oka, hogy a valóságos gazdasági...

A gondolat, amely szerint a vállalatok közötti verseny és együttműködés egyszerre van jelen az üzleti gyakorlatban, kiemelt figyelemet kap az üzleti tudományok területén, ugyanakkor meglehetősen kevés elméleti modell született a probléma megjelenítésére. A tanulmányban egy...

This paper discusses the choice of the number of participants for within-subjects (WS) designs and between-subjects (BS) designs based on simulations of statistical power allowing for different numbers of experimental periods. We illustrate the usefulness of the approach in the context of field...

El ensayo es un aporte fundamental a los procesos interdisciplinarios queinciden en la economía, cuyo impacto y trascendencia comienzan a serdescubiertos a través del laboratory method como reglas implícitas quedevienen de una institucionalidad que se explica por la evolución culturaly...

This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...