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Crisis Bargaining with Collective Decision Making

Kim, Jeongbin; Palfrey, Thomas R.; Zeidel, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

to more or less bluffing and varying aggression compared to Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium. Our experiment varies game …

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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte - 2012

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …

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Anti-social norms

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...

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Cognitive Imprecision and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion

Khaw, Mel Win - 2018

observe in a laboratory experiment …

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Can Myopic Loss Aversion Explain the Equity Premium Puzzle? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Professional Traders

Larson, Francis - 2016

-by-minute trading observations from over 864,000 price realizations in a natural field experiment, we find data patterns consonant with …

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Controlling for the Compromise Effect Debiases Estimates of Risk Preference Parameters

Beauchamp, Jonathan P. - 2015

method using data from an experiment with 550 participants who made choices over lotteries from multiple price lists …

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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Cameron, Lisa - 2013

We investigate whether experiencing a natural disaster affects risk-taking behavior. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural Indonesia. We find that individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion....

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Time Varying Risk Aversion

Guiso, Luigi - 2013

response (fear) triggered by a scary experience. To show the plausibility of this conjecture, we conduct a lab experiment. We …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Borghans, Lex - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

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Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

Dreyfuss, Bnaya - 2019

Deferred Acceptance (DA), a widely implemented algorithm, is meant to improve allocations: under classical preferences, it induces preference-concordant rankings. However, recent evidence shows that--in both real, large-stakes applications and experiments--participants frequently play seemingly...

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