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When and Why Matches Are More Effective Subsidies than Rebates

Bekkers, René - In: Replication in experimental economics, (pp. 183-211). 2015

effective than matching subsidies. A survey based field experiment with health charities was conducted among a national sample … laboratory experiments is replicated. Also some evidence is provided on why matches are more effective than rebates. Matches … do not decrease subsequent giving in a campaign for tsunami relief. The experiment could not test whether the greater …

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Four Classic Public Goods Experiments: A Replication Study

Eckel, Catherine C.; Harwell, Haley; Castillo G., José … - In: Replication in experimental economics, (pp. 13-40). 2015

experiments were conducted as class projects for a PhD course in experimental economics, and follow exact instructions from the … original studies and current standard protocols for lab experiments in economics. Most results show the same pattern as the …

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The Relative Effects of Identifying Versus Investigating Fraud Risks on Evaluators’ Assessments of Auditor Liability

Reffett, Andrew - In: Advances in accounting behavioural research 2013, (pp. 23-54). 2014

Commentators express concern that when auditors investigate for but fail to detect fraud, jurors might effectively penalize the auditors for having investigated for the fraud (AICPA, 2004; Coffee, 2004; Golden, Skalak, & Clayton, 2006). Consistent with these concerns, Reffett (2010) finds that, in a...

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Chapter 6 Bangladesh Experiences of Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

Habiba, Umma; Shaw, Rajib - In: Community based disaster risk reduction, (pp. 91-111). 2012

According to the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) (2008) , Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country to natural hazards and disasters due to its geography, high population density, and poverty. The country is exposed to a variety of recurring natural hazards such as floods, cyclones,...

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Chapter 5 Embodying Resilience: Narrating Gendered Experiences of Disasters in Fiji

Bennett, Kahukura; Neef, Andreas; Varea, Renata - In: Climate-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region : …, (pp. 87-112). 2020

This chapter explores the local narration of gendered experience of disasters in two iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) communities, Votua and Navala, both located in the Ba River catchment, Fiji. The methodology consisted of semi-formal interviews, talanoa, mapping sessions and journal entries from...

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Why Austrians should quit worrying and learn to love the lab

Oprea, Ryan; Powell, Benjamin - In: What is so Austrian about Austrian economics?, (pp. 145-163). 2010

Experimental economics has been treated with skepticism by some Austrian economists. We argue that experimental methods are consistent with strong versions of praxeology, and are therefore not methodologically problematic for Austrians. We further argue that experimental research methods have...

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USING NON-PARAMETRIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS TO FORECAST DAILY EXCESS STOCK RETURNS

Lael Joseph, Nathan; Brée, David S.; Kalyvas, Efstathios - In: Applications of artificial intelligence in finance and …, (pp. 93-125). 2004

Are the learning procedures of genetic algorithms (GAs) able to generate optimal architectures for artificial neural networks (ANNs) in high frequency data? In this experimental study, GAs are used to identify the best architecture for ANNs. Additional learning is undertaken by the ANNs to...

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Reference-Dependent Preferences : A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Individual Reference-Point Formation

Stommel, Evelyn - 2013

Most of our daily decisions are made under uncertainty and risk, without complete information about all relevant …

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Peer effects in macroeconomic expectations

Dräger, Lena; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2025

-national variation in macroeconomic fundamentals. Our experiment uncovers sizable effects of peers and shows that peer information also … less well understood. We design a large-scale global survey experiment among renowned experts working in 135 countries to … models of information acquisition. …

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Rationalizations and political polarization

Le Yaouanq, Yves; Schwardmann, Peter; Weele, Joël J. … - 2025

We present a self- and social-signaling model formalizing findings in political psychology that moral and political judgments stem primarily from intuition and emotion, while reasoning serves to rationalize these intuitions to maintain an image of impartiality. In social interactions, agents’...

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