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This paper describes the results of a web-based multi-period insurance purchasing experiment focusing on how individuals make insurance choices for low-probability, high-consequence events. Participants were told the probability and resulting losses of a hurricane occurring and were informed...
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generalizability. Given that field experiments are in their infancy, our secondary focus pertains to a discussion of the various … parameters that they identify, and how they add to scientific knowledge. We conclude that until we conduct more field experiments …
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We develop an indirect, revealed preference method of eliciting attitudes and apply it in an experiment in Pakistan designed to understand the expression of anti-American views. Following the completion of a personality survey, we offer subjects a bonus payment for completing the survey. We find...
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Measuring sexual orientation, behavior, and related opinions is difficult because responses are biased towards socially acceptable answers. We test whether measurements are biased even when responses are private and anonymous and use our results to identify sexuality-related norms and how they...
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thus find that there was selection into our experiments on the basis of both observable characteristics and on unobserved …
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Laboratory experiments have been used extensively in economics in the past several decades to lend both positive and … grown in prominence of late--field experiments. I argue that field experiments serve as a useful bridge between data … field experiments can yield important insights into economic theory and provide useful guidance to policymakers. I also draw …
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avoid the sharing environment altogether. In four laboratory experiments, prices and social preferences interact to …
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, as in lab experiments with student subjects, but are deliberately identified by their trading roles in the natural field …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an incumbent seller to profitably foreclose a market with exclusive contracts. We use the strategic environment described by Rasmusen, Ramseyer, and Wiley (1991) and Segal and Whinston (2000) where entry is...
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There is a great deal of late bidding on internet second price auctions. We show that this need not result from either common value properties of the objects being sold, or irrational behavior: late bidding can occur at equilibrium even in private value auctions. The reason is that very late...
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