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explained as resulting from anchoring. However, experiments presented in support of this interpretation lack economic conditions … forecasting experiment, we find monetary incentives to substantially reduce and higher task complexity and risk to increase the … bias. Anchors ubiquitously reduce the forecasts' variance, while individual cognitive abilities and learning effects show …
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In this paper an analytical framework has been developed to evaluate the primary beneficiaries of cargo traffic generated by transnational transport projects. In the transportation economics literature, the economic impact of infrastructure projects on cargo traffic has not been developed as...
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In this paper, we examine the impact of transnational transportation projects on cargo traffic and the distribution of the benefits of the project amongst those affected. The paper has found that the allocation of the economic benefits depends upon whether the goods are traded internationally or...
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used in laboratory experiments. We use a field experiment to test whether the game can predict real world investments by …The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and … detect attenuation bias due to measurement error. Subjects'cognitive memory of the game played one year earlier is strongly …
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Forecast combination has been proven to be a very important technique to obtain accurate predictions for various applications in economics, finance, marketing and many other areas. In many applications, forecast errors exhibit heavy-tailed behaviors for various reasons. Unfortunately, to our...
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experiments presented in support of this interpretation lack external validity for economic domains, particularly monetary …'s presence. Monetary incentives reduce the average bias to one-third of its original value. Additionally, the average anchor bias … abilities are on average less biased toward the anchor when task complexity is high. The anchoring bias in our repeated game is …
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Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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We study how the scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities, affects the economic appraisal of climate policy. To this end, we perform a comprehensive analysis of the change in relative prices of non-market goods in the widespread climate-economy model DICE. We show that DICE...
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, and thus its rationality can be evaluated. In two experiments, the authors observe that quick consensus emerges early …
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Although benefit assessment principles are well established for specific populations, very little attention has been paid to how to define the scope of the pertinent population for such assessments. Whose social welfare matters and whose benefits should be included in the assessment? In the case...
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