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On the independence of observations between experiments

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2009

issue differ widely, all concerns regard the independence of subjects' behavior within one session or experiment. This paper …

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Studying deception without deceiving participants : an experiment of deception experiments

Alberti, Federica; Güth, Werner - 2012

experimenter-participants to test whether deception affects behaviour of participant-participants in a dictator experiment and …

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An experiment on experimental instructions

Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide - 2011

instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior …. We show that longer instructions do not significantly improve the subjects' understanding of the experiment; on …

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A theoretical and experimental appraisal of five risk elicitation methods

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2013

appear only when the task is more likely to trigger loss aversion. -- elicitation methods ; experiment ; risk attitudes …

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One swallow doesn ́t make a summer : a note

Kataria, Mitesh - 2013

Maniadis et al. (2013) present a theoretical framework that aims at providing insights into the mechanics of proper inference. They suggest that a decision about whether to call an experimental finding noteworthy, or deserving of great attention, should be based on the calculated post-study...

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Task enjoyment and opportunity costs in the lab : the effect of financial incentives on performance in real effort tasks

Eckartz, Katharina - 2014

This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...

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Compulsory disclosure of private information : theoretical and experimental results for the "Acquiring-a-Company" game

Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; Zaby, … - 2014

Based on the "acquiring-a-company" game of Samuelson and Bazerman (1985), we theoretically and experimentally analyze the acquisition of a firm. Thereby we compare cases of symmetrically and asymmetrically informed buyers and sellers. This setting allows us to predict and test the effects of...

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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …

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Applying quadratic scoring rule transparently in multiple choice settings : a note

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010

The quadratic scoring rule (QSR) is often used to guarantee an incentive compatible elicitation of subjective probabilities over events. Experimentalists have regularly not been able to ensure that subjects fully comprehend the consequences of their actions on payoffs given the rules of the...

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