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We consider an experiment with a version of the Battle of the Sexes game with two-sided private information, allowing a … higher payoffs in the game when the talk is one-way as the truthful reports facilitate desired coordination …
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experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition …
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issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable (“belief-based”) protection indeed leads to more reports, both …
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experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks …
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Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the...
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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utility consequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...
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We examine peer effects in risk taking with complete information and compare explanations for peer effects based on relative payoff concerns to explanations that allow peer choices to matter. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice,...
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Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...
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medium sized and large groups and show that neighborhood choice indeed leads to coordination on the fully efficient …
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voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed … equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the …. We test if thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e. if a threshold is approved in a referendum …
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