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Beliefs, learning, and personality in theindefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma

Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2020 - This version: July 15, 2020

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Candidate Competition and Voter Learning in the 2000-2012 US Presidential Primaries

Deltas, George; Polborn, Mattias - 2018

importance. We also show that voter beliefs about the candidates harden over the course of the primary, as manifested in the …

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Individual and collective information acquisition : an experimental study

Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021

Many committees - juries, political task forces, etc. - spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study

Reshidi, Pellumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2022

Many committees---juries, political task forces, etc.---spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study

Reshidi, Pellumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021

Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311705

Competition in Social Learning

He, Johanna - 2017

Crowd-sourced recommender platforms organize social learning about products by recommending items based on information … study how market structure affects experimentation, social learning, and welfare. I present a model of competing platforms … by the platforms. I compare incentives to experiment for competing platforms to those of a merged platform as well as a …

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Social Learning in a Competitive Market with Consumer Reviews

Vaccari, Stefano - 2016

Two products of unknown qualities are simultaneously launched by two different firms in the market. An infinite population of consumers with heterogeneous preferences sequentially decide whether to purchase one of the two products or not to buy at all. Arriving consumers estimate the qualities...

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Generosity and political preferences

Dawes, Christopher T.; Johannesson, Magnus; Lindqvist, Erik - 2012

We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution...

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Is there a dividend of democracy? : experimental evidence from cooperation games

Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023

Do democratically chosen rules lead to more cooperation and, hence, higher efficiency, than imposed rules? To discuss when such a "dividend of democracy" obtains, we review experimental studies in which material incentives remain stacked against cooperation (i.e., free-riding incentives prevail)...

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Limited capacity in project selection : competition through evidence production

Boleslavsky, Raphael; Cotton, Christopher - 2015 - Current version: June 2015

An organization must decide which proposals to fund. In evaluating the proposals, the organization may rely on those applying for funding to produce evidence about the merits of their own proposals. We consider the role of a capacity constraint preventing the organization from funding all...

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