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On the Autonomy of Experiments in Economics

Jones, Martin K. - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2006

Most methodological discussion in experimental economics has been pursued by justifying the use of experiments as … theory testing vehicles. More recently it has also been argued that the external validity of experiments requires the use of … non- experimental field evidence. Therefore, it is argued, experiments are intermediaries between theories and field …

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On the autonomy of experiments in economics

Jones, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 15 (2008) 4, pp. 391-407

Most methodological discussion in experimental economics has been pursued by justifying the use of experiments as … theory-testing vehicles. More recently, it has also been argued that the external validity of experiments requires the use of … non-experimental field studies. Therefore, it has been proposed, experiments are intermediaries between theories and field …

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From partisanship to preference : how identity shapes dependence aversion

Freundt, Jana; Herz, Holger - 2024

We study how individuals’ willingness to delegate choice is affected by heterogeneity in identity between the delegee and the delegate. While it is straightforward that such heterogeneity can affect delegation for instrumental reasons, we show experimentally that divergent identity also causes...

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Willingness to pay to reduce future risk : a fundamental issue to invest in prevention behaviour

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Héroux, Julie; Montmarquette, Claude - In: Economic and political studies : EPS 9 (2021) 1, pp. 17-36

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Forecasting economic decisions under risk : the predictive importance of choice-process data

Mueller, Steffen Q.; Ring, Patrick; Schmidt, Maria - 2019 - Version: January 2019

We investigate various statistical methods for forecasting risky choices and identify important decision predictors. Subjects (n=44) are presented a series of 50/50 gambles that each involves a potential gain and a potential loss, and subjects can choose to either accept or reject a displayed...

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Through the looking glass : perceiving risk and emotions toward cosmetic procedure engagement

Sood, Abhinav; Quintal, Vanessa Ann; Phau, Ian - In: The journal of services marketing 36 (2022) 1, pp. 14-28

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The effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on household spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021

measured in follow-up surveys. Higher macroeconomic uncertainty induces households to reduce their spending on non …

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Surveying business uncertainty

Altig, David; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2019

We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...

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The effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on household spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021

measured in follow-up surveys. Higher macroeconomic uncertainty induces households to reduce their spending on non …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491975

Subjective Well-being, Risk Perceptions and Time Discounting: Evidence from a large-scale cash transfer programme

Martorano, Bruno; Halpern, Carolyn; Thirumurthy, Harsha; … - 2014

The risk and time preferences of individuals as well as their subjective expectations regarding the future are likely … to play an important role in choice behaviour. Measurement of these individual characteristics in large-scale surveys has … results of measuring individuals’ attitudes towards inter-temporal choice, risk, and the future in a large-scale field survey …

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