Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 12,798
Cover Image
When should I quit? Gender differences in exiting competitions
Hogarth, Robin M.; Karelaia, Natalia; Trujillo, Carlos … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 136-150
We study gender differences in exiting competitive environments by exploiting the “naturalistic experiment” of a TV game show where participants were self-selected and there were no gender-specific constraints or discrimination. In multiple rounds, contestants answer general knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048209
Cover Image
Self-Confidence, Overconfidence and Prenatal Testosterone Exposure: Evidence from the Lab
Dalton, Patricio S.; Ghosal, Sayantan - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2014
to low prenatal testosterone levels, instead, set unrealistically high expectations which results in self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896979
Cover Image
The Endowment Effect
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; Fuster, Andreas - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 555-579
The endowment effect is among the best known findings in behavioral economics and has been used as evidence for theories of reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion. However, a recent literature has questioned the robustness of the effect in the laboratory, as well as its relevance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886210
Cover Image
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
Prowse, Victoria; Gill, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009
that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous expectations-based reference point, responds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998381
Cover Image
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous expectations-based reference point, responds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527299
Cover Image
DO AUCTION BIDS BETRAY EXPECTATIONS-BASED REFERENCE DEPENDENT PREFERENCES? A TEST, EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE, AND ESTIMATES OF LOSS AVERSION
BANERJI, A.; GUPTA, NEHA - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2011
of winning to test for the presence of expectations-based reference dependent preferences. We prove that (i) in this … reference point. Thus we contribute to the nascent literature that empirically documents the importance of expectations as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416190
Cover Image
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2011
disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous choice-acclimating expectations-based reference point, responds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783611
Cover Image
More than outcomes: A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent research has cast some doubt on the general validity of outcome-based models of social preferences. We develop a model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant) tests the model. First, we find that subjects whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009023790
Cover Image
Promises and Expectations
Ederer, Florian; Stremitzer, Alexander - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013
effects. In a controlled laboratory experiment we show that exogenous variation of second-order expectations (promisors …' expectations about promisees' expectations that the promise will be kept) leads to a significant change in promisor behavior. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252589
Cover Image
Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers
Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256510