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Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...
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Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in … which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the … strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often start with diffuse uniform beliefs and update them in view of …
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(Learning-to-Forecast experiments) or individual trading (Learning-to-Optimize experiments). Bao et al. (2017) have shown that …
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discover compared to equally-relevant information they discover themselves. In a series of incentivized lab experiments, we ask …
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Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We … summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain …, including attention-based utility, the recent proliferation of attentional externalities introduced by digital technology, the …
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only subjects who picked the minority option obtain a positive reward. Previous experiments on the minority and similar … reinforcement learning models than with belief-based models. Showing level-2 rationality (i.e., reasoning about others' beliefs) is … approach pays off. In addition, teams that are more successful tend to become more egocentric over time, paying more attention …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the availability of information about the payoff structure on the behavior of players in a Common-Pool Resource game. Six groups of six individuals played a complete information game, while other six groups played the same game but with no information about the...
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We report an experiment on a decision task by SAMUELSON and BAZERMAN (1985). Subjects submit a bid for an item with an unknown value. A winner s curse phenomenon arises when subjects bid too high and make losses. Learning direction theory can account for this. However, other influences on...
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The purpose of the paper is to explore, from an assessment viewpoint, the ideas below. Economics, as a social science, has always considered sets of individuals with assumed characteristics, namely the level of knowledge, although in an implicit way in most of the cases. In this sense, an...
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Payments and discounts incentivize participation in many transactions about which people know little, but can learn more --- payments for medical trial participation, signing bonuses for job applicants, or price rebates on consumer durables. Who opts into the transaction when given such...
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