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important economic problem - the adjustment of nominal prices after an anticipated money shock. Our experiments show that when … agents' actions are strategic substitutes adjustment to the new equilibrium is extremely quick whereas under strategic … complementarity adjustment lasts very long and is associated with relatively large real effects. This adjustment difference occurs …
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endogenous adjustment of agents' beliefs regarding the aggregate price level. …
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adjustment and thus history dependence. By reporting a business indicator in a simpler form, subjects were given the chance to …
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Trust is an essential component of good social outcomes and effective economic performance. This is particularly true in environments such as the Prisoner's Dilemma or standard public-goods games, where the equilibrium in a one-shot case involves strictly uncooperative behavior. Evolutionary...
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By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...
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We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
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We explore how risk-taking in the card game contract bridge, and in a financial gamble, correlate with variation in the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) among serious tournament bridge players. In bridge risk-taking, we find significant interactions between genetic predisposition and skill....
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We investigate the external validity of giving in the dictator game by using the misdirected letter technique in a within-subject design. First, subjects participated in standard dictator games (double blind) conducted in labs in two different studies. Second, after four to five weeks (study 1)...
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