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A Jackknife Model Averaging analysis of RMB misalignment estimates

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Wang, Wenhao - 2019

We adopt the Jackknife Model Averaging (JMA) technique to conduct a meta-regression analysis of 925 renminbi (RMB) misalignment estimates generated by 69 studies. The JMA method accounts for model selection and sampling uncertainties, and allows for non-nested model specifications and...

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Large effects of small cues: Priming selfish economic decisions

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024

Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...

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Stated social behavior and revealed actions: Evidence from six Latin American countries using representative samples

Cárdenas, Juan Camilo; Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008

This paper explores the link between what people say they prefer to do and what they actually do. Using data from an experimental project explored trust and pro-sociality for representative samples of individuals in six Latin American capital cities, the paper links the results of these...

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Time pressure preferences

Buser, Thomas; Van Veldhuizen, Roel; Zhong, Yang - 2022

. We use a lab experiment to elicit preferences for working under time pressure in an incentivized way by eliciting the …

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Patents versus subsidies: A laboratory experiment

Darai, Donja; Großer, Jens; Trhal, Nadja - 2009

price competition. Both stages of the game are implemented in a laboratory experiment and the obtained results support the …

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Priming in economics

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2016

Conceptual priming has become an increasingly popular tool in economics. Here, we review the literature that uses priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and norms in shaping preferences and behavior. We also...

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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019

tightly controlled laboratory labor market experiment demonstrates that prior employment information allows employers to … field experiment that varies the frequency of job changes in applicants' resumes and find that those with fewer job changes … receive substantially more callbacks from prospective employers. Third, a survey experiment with Human Resources professionals …

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Second Thoughts on Free Riding

Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2013

We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game...

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Cooperation, Framing and Political Attitudes

Fosgaard, Toke R.; Hansen, Lars G.; Wengström, Erik - 2017

This paper shows that political attitudes are linked to cooperative behavior in an incentivized experiment with a large … sample randomly drawn from the Danish population. However, this relationship depends on the way the experiment is framed. In …

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Price Competition and Market Concentration: An Experimental Study

Dufwenberg, Martin; Gneezy, Uri - 1998

The classical price competition model (named after Bertrand), prescribes that in equilibrium prices are equal to marginal costs. Moreover, prices do not depend on the number of competitors. Since this outcome is not in line with real-life observations, it is known as the Bertrand Paradox. Many...

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