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in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of … factors. We study subjects' strategic investment decisions in four basic network structures. As predicted, we find that global …
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This paper proposes a model in which retail prices are sticky even though firms can always change their prices at zero cost. Instead of imposing a "menu cost", we assume that more precise decisions are more costly. In equilibrium, firms optimally make some errors in price-setting, thus...
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We study risk taking on behalf of others in an experiment on a large random sample. The decision makers in our … experiment are facing high-powered incentives to increase the risk on behalf of others through hedged compensation contracts or …
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This paper compares the properties of three electoral systems when voters have imperfect information. Imperfect information blurs voter decisions and may divorce the electoral outcome from the true preferences of the electorate. The challenge for electoral design is therefore to translate the...
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Why do people vote? This question received a lot of attention for more than thirty years, and yet remains unanswered. In this Paper, we take stock of existing empirical regularities and argue that we can use them to improve the model of instrumental voting. Once this is done, we show that purely...
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measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the … investment task. Moreover, emotions were explicitly measured, including anticipatory emotions experienced during the waiting …-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly …
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We analyze the investment decision of a population of time inconsistent entrepreneurs who overweight current payoffs … (or an excessive level of investment in the economy) without assuming the existence of boundedly rational, 'intrinsically …
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The empirical performance of macroeconomic exchange rate models is more than disappointing. This dismal result is also reflected in the forecasting capabilities of professional analysts: all in all, analysts are not in a position to beat naïve random walk forecasts. The root for this deficient...
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variable is the particular decision stage at which a global risk is resolved: (i) before the investment decision; (ii) after … the investment decision but before the resolution of the investment risk; (iii) after the resolution of the investment …
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We develop a model of portfolio choice to nest the views of Keynes - who advocates concentration in a few familiar assets - and Markowitz - who advocates diversification across assets. We rely on the concepts of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion to formalize the idea of an investor’s...
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