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, costly and truthful communication effort choices. It investigates and confirms some predictions of the Dewatripont and Tirole …'s (2005) modes of communication model.The experiment also gives evidence that, in a situation where a sender tries to convince … a receiver to accept a project, the receiver pursues one out of two communication goals.On the one hand, if without any …
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This paper investigates the effect of different channels of communication on lying behavior. A simple coin flip game … treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to convey the private information, i.e., face-to face, phone … communication channel in use. However, the decision whether to lie either to some or the full extent depends on the communication …
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We study experimentally persuasion games in which a sender (e.g., a seller) with private information provides verifiable but potentially vague information (e.g., about the quality of a product) to a receiver (e.g., a buyer). Various theoretical solution concepts such as sequential equilibrium or...
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Under what circumstances is it necessary or convenient for an agent to rely on habits and rules? This paper focuses on the types of decision situation giving rise to their use. Even optimisation requires the development of rules, and for this reason mainstream economics cannot legitimately...
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In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we use a method of manipulating conscious and...
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This paper examines the impact of a commonly experienced adverse cognitive state on decision making under uncertainty. Specifically, we administer an at-home sleep restriction protocol combined with random assignment to the time-of-day for decision making. Thus, we induce sleepiness in our...
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This paper examines the impact of a commonly experienced adverse cognitive state on decision making under uncertainty. Specifically, we administer an at-home sleep restriction protocol combined with random assignment to the time-of-day for decision making. Thus, we induce sleepiness in our...
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We provide evidence that people have preferences for data privacy and show that these preferences partly reflect people’s interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share validated personal information with peers. We...
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We provide evidence that people have preferences for data privacy and show that these preferences partly reflect people's interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share validated personal information with peers. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350092