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Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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students, and the student composition at schools, using theory and experiments. We find that the lottery quota strengthens … more diverse school populations in the experiments, as predicted. Comparing the two mechanisms, students with the lowest …
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The paper surveys the experimental literature on matching markets. It covers house allocation, school choice, and two-sided matching markets such as college admissions. The main focus of the survey is on truth-telling and strategic manipulations by the agents, on the stability and efficiency of...
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the experiment. These results support the notion that fairness preferences as assessed in laboratory experiments capture …
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Information unraveling is an elegant theoretical argument suggesting that private information may be fully and voluntarily surrendered. The experimental literature has, however, failed to provide evidence of complete unraveling and has suggested senders' limited depth of reasoning as one...
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Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we …
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