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Luck, choice and responsibility : an experimental study of fairness views
Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - 2014
We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393298
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Sex hormones and competitive bidding
Schipper, Burkhard - 2012
We correlate competitive bidding and profits in symmetric independent private value first-price auctions with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol in more than 200 subjects. Females bid significantly higher and earn significantly lower profits than males. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544159
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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding
Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard - 2009 - Rev.
In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003878997
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects: A plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274086
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects : a plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997569
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Reference Point Adaptation : Evidence from China, Korea, and the US
Arkes, Hal R.; Hirshleifer, David A.; Jiang, Danling; … - 2010
We examined reference point adaptation following gains or losses in security trading using participants from China, Korea, and the US. In both questionnaire studies and trading experiments with real money incentives, reference point adaptation was larger for Asians than for Americans. Subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048995
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Short-term equity trading practices of institutional investors : evidence from property-casualty insurers in the United States
Park, Jin; Query, Tim - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 11 (2013) 2, pp. 3-13
In addition to premiums, investment income is one of the two main sources of capital for property-casualty (P/C) insurance companies. This study investigates short-term equity trading behavior of P/C insurers in the United States in 2007 and 2008, and finds that over 27 percent of non-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010654
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Risk as feelings in the effect of patient outcomes on physicians' future treatment decisions: A randomized trial and manipulation validation
Hemmerich, Joshua A.; Elstein, Arthur S.; Schwarze, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 367-376
successful operation (SO), as well as the statistical treatment guidelines for AAA. Experiment 1 tested effects of these … simulated outcomes on (n = 76) laboratory participants' (university student sample) self-reported emotions, and their ratings of … valence and arousal of the AAA rupture simulation and other emotion-inducing picture stimuli. Experiment 2 tested two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042682
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266065
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A Critique of the Literature on the US Financial Debt Crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148882