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effect. Relying on a simple experiment, we investigate which failure of these axioms is concomitant with the empirical …
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We study the experimentation dynamics of a decision maker (DM) in a two-armed bandit setup (Bolton and Harris [1999]), where the agent holds ambiguous beliefs regarding the distribution of the return process of one arm and is certain about the other one. The DM entertains Multiplier preferences...
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A sender chooses ex ante how information will be disclosed ex post. A receiver obtains public information and information disclosed by the sender. Then he takes one of two actions. The sender wishes to maximize the probability that the receiver takes the desired action. I show that the sender...
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more impatient decision maker may experiment more, given lump-sum final payoffs. We show that (a) and (b) are robust to … decisions at each instant: stop or experiment, and then at what level n. The second choice equates the marginal costs and …
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more impatient decision maker may experiment more, given lump-sum final payoffs. We show that (a) and (b) are robust to … decisions at each instant: stop or experiment, and then at what level n. The second choice equates the marginal costs and …
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. We check our theoretical predictions through a 10-task laboratory experiment. In (unambiguous) tasks 1-5, we elicit risk …
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We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
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the acquisition of more information. We design a laboratory experiment to study whether human behaviour is able to …
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received a cash endowment two weeks after the experiment day and had to use their own money to pay the experimental loss (if … any) on the experiment day. We compared the effect of delayed payment on overbidding in the induced value SPAs with the … conventional “on-the-spot” payment mechanism when the subjects received an endowment on the experiment day, and the prepaid …
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experiment exploits the potential of the increasingly popular BDM elicitation procedure adopted to lotteries to distort beliefs …
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