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by a large literature. Here we test whether the occurrence of bubbles depends on the experimental subjects' cognitive … sophistication. In a two-part experiment, we first run a battery of tests to assess the subjects' cognitive sophistication and …
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data to test for this effect in a simulated labor relatonship. We find a consistent discrepancy between employer beliefs …
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experiment to explore optimal contracts in an adverse-selection context. A principal proposes one of three contract menus, each …
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. Our model delivers testable implications on players' chosen actions as incentives and opponents change. We then test the … model's predictions with an experiment. We administer different treatments that vary beliefs over payoffs and opponents, as … well as beliefs over opponents' beliefs. The results of this experiment, which are not accounted for by current models of …
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for remaining in doubt. I then use this model to analyze the connection between preferences of this nature and risk …
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rival’s gender and/or differences in relative ability. In a laboratory experiment, we use two tasks that differ regarding …
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responsible behaviors than do individuals whose independent self is more prominent. We test these hypotheses in two experiments in …
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Recent research on the dynamics of moral behavior has documented two contrasting phenomena - moral consistency and moral balancing. Moral balancing refers to the phenomenon whereby behaving (un)ethically decreases the likelihood of doing so again at a later time. Moral consistency describes the...
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market risk. Our method performs well in estimating Value at Risk and provides a superior alternative to Hill's estimator in …
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This paper proposes to estimate the covariance matrix of stock returns by an optimally weighted average of two existing estimators: the sample covariance matrix and single-index covariance matrix. This method is generally known as shrinkage, and it is standard in decision theory and in empirical...
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