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Effects of visual and aural communication of categorical response options on answers to survey questions

Lynn, Peter; Hope, Steven; Jäckle, Annette; … - 2012

Whether questions and answers are transmitted between interviewer and respondent by visual or aural communication can affect the responses given. We hypothesise that communication channel can affect either the respondent's understanding of the question or the tendency to satisfice. These effects...

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Do investors overreact to COVID-19 outbreak? An experimental study using sequential disclosures

Sulistiawan, Dedhy; Feliana, Yie Ke; Rudiawarni, … - In: Contemporary Economics 17 (2023) 1, pp. 43-57

This paper aims to investigate market participants' reactions to sequential information, presenting firm-specific news and market-wide information. Experimental study takes place in the COVID-19 pandemic era, as market-wide information representation. We also provide firm-specific information in...

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Primacy effects in the formation of opinions on an unfamiliar environmental topic: Experimental evidence from mineral exploration and mining

Poluektova, Olga; Julienne, Hannah; Robertson, Deirdre A.; … - 2022

Transitioning to the green economy relies on new developments that may negatively affect people's localities and involve certain risks. This study investigates how people form opinions about such developments, using mineral exploration and mining as an example. A representative sample (N=1000)...

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Real-world eye-tracking in face-to-face, web and SAQ modes

Kaminska, Olena; Foulsham, Tom - 2013

Eye-tracking is becoming a popular testing tool to understand how different forms of asking questions influence respondents' answers. Until now, due to the ease of eye-tracking on PC, this method has almost exclusively been used to test questions in web/PC mode. Our paper extends the application...

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Mistaking Noise for Bias - Victimhood and Hutu-Tutsi Reconciliation in East Africa

Blouin, Arthur; Mukand, Sharun W.; Mukand, Sharun - 2022

difficult. We show that individuals systematically (and mistakenly) blame accidental negative shocks (noise) to the deliberate … intent of individuals (bias). This "victimhood bias" wherein individuals ascribe noise to bias is much larger for (a … suggest that insurance agreements that limit negative shocks and reduce noise, can encourage reconciliation by mitigating …

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Complexity and Time

Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas; Oprea, Ryan - 2023

We provide experimental evidence that core intertemporal choice anomalies – including extreme short-run impatience, structural estimates of present bias, hyperbolicity and transitivity violations – are driven by complexity rather than time or risk preferences. First, all anomalies also arise...

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Homevoters vs. Leasevoters: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2013

We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...

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Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Fact or Fiction?

Andersson, Ola; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik; … - 2013

allowing for heterogeneity of noise yields no significant relation between risk aversion and cognitive ability. Our results …

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Quantifying noise in survey expectations

Juodis, Artūras; Kučinskas, Simas - In: Quantitative Economics 14 (2023) 2, pp. 609-650

bias (systematic mistakes) or noise (unsystematic mistakes). We develop a framework for quantifying the level of noise in … structure for individual expectations. Using data from professional forecasters, we find that the magnitude of noise is large …

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Fly or cry: is airport noise costly?

Nitsch, Volker - 2009

Airport noise is costly. Airport location is typically associated with lower property prices. Airport expansion often … sparks protests by local residents. In this paper, I provide new evidence on the costs of airport-related noise (and other …

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