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Beyond information : disclosure, distracted attention, and investor behavior
Hillenbrand, Adrian; Schmelzer, André - 2015 - Working paper version: December 2015
investment behavior. In our experiment, subjects decide about investments into real-life mutual funds. We find that subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416914
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Beyond information: Disclosure, distracted attention, and investor behavior / Adrian Hillenbrand
Hillenbrand, Adrian; Schmelzer, André - 2015
investment behavior. In our experiment, subjects decide about investments into real-life mutual funds. We find that subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522105
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Cooperation in symmetric and asymmetric prisoner's dilemma games
Beckenkamp, Martin; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; … - 2006
We experimentally study the effect of asymmetry on cooperation in a 40 period prisoner's dilemma game in fixed partner design. We distinguish between a high and low payoff symmetric prisoner's dilemma and an asymmetric game combined out of both symmetric ones. Asymmetry significantly decreases...
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Leading with(out) sacrifice? A public-goods experiment with a super-additive player
Glöckner, Andreas; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
We analyse two team settings in which one member in a team has stronger incentives to contribute than the others. If contributions constitute a sacrifice for the strong player, the other team members are more inclined to cooperate than if contributions are strictly dominant for the strong player.
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Strategic inattention in product search
Hillenbrand, Adrian; Hippel, Svenja - 2017
Online platforms provide search tools that help consumers to get betterfitting product offers. But this technology makes consumer search behavior also easily traceable for the platform and allows for real-time price discrimination. Consumers face a trade-off: Search intensely and receive better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737481
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Strategic inattention in product search
Hillenbrand, Adrian; Hippel, Svenja - 2017
Online platforms provide search tools that help consumers to get betterfitting product offers. But this technology makes consumer search behavior also easily traceable for the platform and allows for real-time price discrimination. Consumers face a trade-off: Search intensely and receive better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789571
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Single versus multiple randomization in matching mechanisms
Schmelzer, André - 2016
This paper experimentally studies an essential institutional feature of matching markets: Randomization of allocation priorities. I compare single and multiple randomization in the student assignment problem with ties. The Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm is employed after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478678
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Experimental criminal law : a survey of contributions from law, economics and criminology
Engel, Christoph - 2016
paper surveys the rich evidence, and discusses the methodological reasons for running experiments on these issues, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455955
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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2017
uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We … present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but where the number of winners is either uncertain … experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722124
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Committing the English and the continental way : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Schmelzer, André - 2017
On the doctrinal surface, there is a deep divide between common and continental law when it comes to the origin of contractual obligations. Under continental law, in principle a unilateral promise suffices. Common law by contrast requires consideration. When it comes to deciding cases, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706153