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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity. In a between-subjects design I vary whether subjects learn choices made individually by a "peer" in a first part when facing the same task a second time, and whether prospects...
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send less money than solely selfish ones. In our experiment, most subjects show distinct social preferences in the receiver … considerations under uncertainty might be fundamentally different from those when no uncertainty is present. Furthermore, we find …
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an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with …Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In …
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We conducted a set of experiments to compare the effect of ambiguity in single person decisions and games. Our results suggest that ambiguity has a bigger impact in games than in ball and urn problems. We find that ambiguity has the opposite effect in games of strategic substitutes and...
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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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uncertainty on an individual's decision to commit a violation are very difficult to observe in field data. We use a roadway …) uncertainty about the enforcement regime yields a large reduction in violations committed, and (c) people are much more likely to … behavioral theory of deterrence under uncertainty …
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experiment, we study the endowment effect in lotteries with the same payoffs as the games in the first part. Our findings provide …
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We report the results from a set of experiments conducted to test the effect of ambiguity on individual behaviour in games of strategic complements and strategic substitutes. We test whether subjects' perception of ambiguity differs when faced by a local opponent as opposed to a foreign one....
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decisions in the absence of strategic considerations. This paper uses an economic experiment to investigate whether subjects …
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The workers' reciprocity in a simple Gift Exchange Game has been demonstrated in prior research to be enforcement problem. We showed that potential future interactions could not motivate the workers significantly because of assurance problem. Lack of information about employers' reciprocal type...
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