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Battigalli, Pierpaolo; Charness, Gary; Dufwenberg, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 227-232

Evidence suggests that whether or not people dislike lying is situation-dependent. We argue that the theory of simple guilt can accommodate this well.

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Decision-making strategies and performance among seniors

Besedeš, Tibor; Deck, Cary; Sarangi, Sudipta; Shor, Mikhael - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 524-533

Using paper and pencil experiments administered in senior centers, we examine decision-making performance in multi …

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Market microstructure matters when imposing a Tobin tax—Evidence from the lab

Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Kleinlercher, Daniel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 3, pp. 586-602

makers. Using laboratory experiments we test whether the impact of a Tobin tax is different in these two market …

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Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 50-58

economic issues. We assemble the data from 15 sets of experiments with one simple underlying investment game. Most of these … experiments were not designed to investigate gender differences and were conducted by different researchers in different countries …

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Starting small toward voluntary formation of efficient large groups in public goods provision

Charness, Gary; Yang, Chun-Lei - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 102 (2014) C, pp. 119-132

We test a mechanism whereby groups are formed voluntarily, through the use of voting. These groups play a public-goods game, where efficiency increases with group size (up to a limit, in one treatment). It is feasible to exclude group members, to exit one's group, or to form larger groups...

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Experimental methods: Extra-laboratory experiments-extending the reach of experimental economics

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri; Kuhn, Michael A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 93-100

We propose a new organizing scheme for classifying types of experiments. In addition to the standard categories of … laboratory and field experiments, we suggest a new category: “extra-laboratory experiments.” These are experiments that have the … same spirit as laboratory experiments, but are conducted in a non-standard manner. We also suggest some organizing …

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Experimental evidence on varying uncertainty and skewness in laboratory double-auction markets

Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; Stefan, Matthias - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107 (2014) PB, pp. 798-809

We investigate the influence of skewness in asset fundamentals on asset prices under different states of uncertainty in double-auction markets. Three different types of assets are considered: risky assets, ambiguous assets and assets where the fundamental value distribution can be learned by...

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Experimental methods: Between-subject and within-subject design

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri; Kuhn, Michael A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 1-8

In this article we explore the issues that surround within-subject and between-subject designs. We describe experiments …

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Experimental methods: Eliciting risk preferences

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 87 (2013) C, pp. 43-51

Economists and psychologists have developed a variety of experimental methodologies to elicit and assess individual risk attitudes. Choosing which to utilize, however, is largely dependent on the question one wants to answer, as well as the characteristics of the sample population. The goal of...

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Price increasing competition? Experimental evidence

Deck, Cary; Gu, Jingping - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 730-740

distribution of buyer values for the products. We explore this relationship using controlled laboratory experiments. Our results …

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