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We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one …
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cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment of second-price sealed bid auctions of a common value good with two bidders. Bidders …
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We use a laboratory experiment to explore dynamic network formation in a six-player game where link creation requires …
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Employing a variant of GARP, we study consistency in aging by comparing the choices of younger adults (YA) and older adults (OA) in a 'simple', two-good and a `complex' three-good condition. We find that OA perform worse than YA in the complex condition but similar in the simple condition....
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We conduct a controlled laboratory experiment where subjects dynamically choose their portfolio allocation between a …
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Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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We consider a frictional two-sided matching market in which one side uses public cheap-talk announcements so as to attract the other side. We show that if the first-price auction is adopted as the trading protocol, then cheap talk can be perfectly informative, and the resulting market outcome is...
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Directed search models are market games in which each firm announces a wage commitment to attract a worker. Miscoordination among workers generates search frictions, yet in equilibrium more productive firms post more attractive wage commitments to fill their vacancies faster, which yields...
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