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We study the reaction of investors to tail events across trading institutions. We conduct experiments in which investors bid on a financial asset that delivers a small positive reward in more than 99% of the cases and a large loss otherwise. The baseline treatment uses a repeated BDM mechanism...
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Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits …
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differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …
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We investigate how consumers respond to uncertainty about CO2 emission size. In an incentivized online experiment …
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We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...
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This paper incorporates compassion into social preferences and tracks individuals' choices over ten allocation decisions, categorizing participants' behavior more precisely than previous work. We provide important evidence relevant to the on-going debate as to whether social preferences are...
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We study the impacts of local gender imbalance on corporate risk-taking. We find that firms in areas with higher local …. We show that both employee and local investor channels transit local residents' risk preferences embedded in gender …
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