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Barron, Kai; Fries, Tilman - 2024

persuasion. Our results reveal several insights. First, narratives are persuasive: We find that they systematically shift beliefs …

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Concerns about rising prices may raise prices

Huck, Steffen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Petros, Fidel - 2024

(i) a reduction of strategic uncertainty and (ii) an inducement of correlated beliefs. We find that issued statements of …

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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition: Experimental evidence

Danz, David - 2014

The psychology literature provides ample evidence that people have difficulties taking the perspective of less-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader...

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Equilibrium selection in similar repeated games: Experimental evidence on the role of precedents

Duffy, John; Fehr, Dietmar - 2015

We report on an experiment examining behavior and equilibrium selection in two similar, infinitely repeated games, Stag Hunt and Prisoner's Dilemma under anonymous random matching. We are interested in the role that precedents may play for equilibrium selection between these two stage game...

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Everyday econometricians: Selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others

Barron, Kai; Huck, Steffen; Jehiel, Philippe - 2019

In this paper, we design an investment game which allows us to study the influence of selection when learning from others. Using the theoretical study of selection neglect in Jehiel (2018) as a guide, we test (i) for the presence of selection neglect in this investment context, and (ii) some...

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Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2020

discrimination, explicit and implicit belief-based discrimination. Both rely on statistically inaccurate beliefs but differ in how …

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Confidence and career choices: An experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020

about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a …

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Information and beliefs in a repeated normal-form game

Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David - 2010

We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge … observe more strategic play, more best-responses to beliefs and more accurate beliefs over time. While feedback is the main … driving force of learning to play strategically and for forming beliefs that accurately predict the behavior of the opponent …

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