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We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on whether individual behavior is consistent with a neoclassical model of utility maximization subject to budget constraints. We do this through the lens of a field experiment on charitable giving. We find that the...
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We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on whether individual behavior is consistent with a neoclassical model of utility maximization subject to budget constraints. We do this through the lens of a field experiment on charitable giving. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762797
We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can share...
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We design and implement a novel experimental test of subjective expected utility theory and its generalizations. Our … function, but not with subjective utility theory. The theory is tested by gauging how subjects respond to price changes. A … majority of subjects respond to price changes in the direction predicted by the theory, but not to a degree that makes them …
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The present study investigates how the framing of information on the environmental impact of vehicles affects consumers' preferences for identical improvements in car quality. In online choice experiments, the effects of two metrics (fuel consumption vs. CO2 emissions) and three scales of one...
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thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret … interaction on search behavior in a pre-registered, theory-based, and well-powered experiment. Empirically, we and that … systematic adjustments in search length. Urgency reduces decision times and perceived decision quality, but does not generally …
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deviation (in beliefs, utility, or perceived prices) is within e of expected utility theory. The number e can then be used as a … distance to the theory. We apply our methodology to three recent large-scale experiments. Many subjects in those experiments …
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The adoption decision for durable goods is intertemporal by definition. However, estimating utility and discount …
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This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real …-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise information about decision times and decision quality, based on a … with the predictions of procedural decision models like drift-diffusion-models in which decision makers sequentially …
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