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Private and Social Learning with Endogenous Timing : An Experimental Analysis

Jamison, Julian C. - 2015

We conducted laboratory experiments to investigate how private and public information affect the selection and timing of technology adoption. Our experiments extend the standard herding model to more accurately represent the innovation decision problem. Subjects drew private signals and observed...

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Do Liars Believe? Beliefs and Other-Regarding Preferences in Disclosure Settings

Shields, Timothy W. - 2015

other-regarding preferences. The results of the experiment indicate that 60 percent of senders adopt deceptive strategies by …

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Hypothetical Thinking and the Winner's Curse : An Experimental Investigation

Moser, Johannes - 2019

underbidding can be weakened by giving the subjects ex ante feedback about their bid, but unlike related studies I also find …

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Social Learning in Networks : Theory and Experiments

Mueller-Frank, Manuel - 2014

. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants play an urn-guessing game over several decision rounds while … from our experiment. The theoretical prediction differs sharply from the existing results in the Bayesian and non …

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A note on salience of own preferences and the consensus effect

Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2023

In this paper, we hypothesize that the strength of the consensus effect, i.e., the tendency for people to overweight the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by...

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Male, Female, or No Comment? Gender Information Disclosure in Trusting and Reciprocating

He, Yunwen; Lien, Jaimie W.; Zheng, Jie - 2021

experiment. Treatments vary by the type of reciprocity examined (direct, indirect) and information conditions (no information …

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Market Concentration and Incentives to Collude in Cournot Oligopoly Experiments

Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Masiliūnas, Aidas - 2021

Multiple Cournot oligopoly experiments found more collusive behavior in markets with fewer firms (Huck et al., 2004; Hostmann et al., 2018). This result could be explained by a higher difficulty to coordinate or by lower incentives to collude in markets with more firms. We show that the Quantal...

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Imperfect recall and time inconsistencies : an experimental test of the absentminded driver “paradox”

Levati, M. Vittoria; Uhl, Matthias; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010

. -- imperfect recall ; absentmindedness ; dynamic inconsistency ; experiment …

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Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? : an experimental study on "Broken (and Fixed) Windows"

Engel, Christoph; Kube, Sebastian; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011

Cooperation problems are at the heart of many everyday situations. In this paper, we propose a very simple and light-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation by controlling experiences, more...

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Bracelets of pride and guilt? : an experimental test of self-signaling in charitable giving

Weele, Joël J. van der; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014

experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks. …

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