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Incentives, search engines, and the elicitation of subjective beliefs : evidence from representative online survey experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

increased online-search activity. Consistently, an experiment that just encourages search-engine usage produces very similar … results. Another experiment provides no evidence of experimenter-demand effects. Overall, results suggest that incentive …

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Cooperating over losses and competing over gains : a social dilemma experiment

Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2017

Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collective action and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situations cooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation,...

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Covid-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020 - This version: June 2020, revised version

Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...

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Meta-analysis of empirical estimates of loss-aversion

Brown, Alexander L.; Imai, Taisuke; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; … - 2021

Loss aversion is one of the most widely used concepts in behavioral economics. We conduct a large-scale interdisciplinary meta-analysis, to systematically accumulate knowledge from numerous empirical estimates of the loss aversion coefficient reported during the past couple of decades. We...

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Narrative persuasion

Barron, Kai; Fries, Tilman - 2024 - revised

sense-making explanation (or narrative). Using a theory-driven experiment, we investigate the mechanics of such narrative …

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Narrative persuasion

Barron, Kai; Fries, Tilman - 2024

sense-making explanation (or narrative). Using a theory-driven experiment, we investigate the mechanics of such narrative …

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The influence of an up-front experiment on respondents’ recording behaviour in payment diaries : evidence from Germany

Sieber, Susann; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

-of-sales expenditures. We are particularly interested in the effect of a behavioural experiment, eliciting respondents’ risk preferences, on … their recording behaviour. In the experiment, run shortly before the consumers start to fill in the diary, the consumers … literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …

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Overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a representative sample

Ahrens, Steffen; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril; Kassner, Bernhard - 2021

We study the relationship between overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a nationally representative sample. To do so, we introduce a new method of eliciting overconfidence that is simple to understand, quick to implement, and captures respondents' excess confidence in their...

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Overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a representative sample

Bosch-Rosa, Ciril; Kassner, Bernhard; Ahrens, Steffen - 2024

We study the relationship between overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a nationally representative sample. Consistent with theoretical predictions, our findings indicate that excessive confidence in one's judgment is associated with lower portfolio diversification, greater...

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Motivate the crowd or crowd- them out? : the impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good

Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin - 2022

providing information on reference group behavior, we challenge this argument and conduct a framed-field experiment to analyze …

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