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cognitive effort required to process the information. We find that subjects’ behavior is largely in line with the predictions …
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The existence of lawsuits providing plaintiffs a negative expected value (NEV) at trial has important theoretical implications for signaling models of litigation. The signaling equilibrium possible absent NEV suits breaks down with NEV suits because plaintiffs do not have a credible threat to...
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Tug-of-war is a multi-battle contest often used to describe extended interactions in economics, management, political science, and other disciplines. While there has been some theoretical work, there is scant empirical evidence regarding behavior in a tug-of-war game. To the best of our...
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Firms often worry about how buyers will react when there is an inventory shortage, but the anticipation of facing a shortage may also impact buyer behavior. In this paper we use a combination of theoretical modeling, computational methods, and laboratory experiments to understand buyers' search...
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Using paper and pencil experiments administered in senior centers, we examine decision-making performance in multi-attribute decision problems. We differentiate the effects of declining cognitive performance and changing cognitive process on decision-making performance of seniors as they age. We...
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experiments. However, traders' acquisition cost of information has typically been ignored. Results from a laboratory experiment … involving six treatments varying the cost of acquiring signals of an asset's value suggest that when information is costly …, markets do not succeed in aggregating it. At an individual level, having information improves trading performance, but not …
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The efficient market hypothesis predicts that asset prices reflect all available information. Recent experimental work … found the rational expectation model to outperform the prior information model in contingent claim markets when traders hold … claim markets to successfully aggregate information when traders hold highly differentiated asset values. These prior …
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