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An Experimental Study of Precautionary Bidding [Dataset]
Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common-knowledge ex-post risk. In such auctions, precautionary bidding predicts that under expected utility, DARA bidders reduce their... -
A Test of Mechanical Ambiguity [Dataset]
We implement an experiment to elicit subjects’ ambiguity attitudes in the spirit of Ellsberg's three-color urn. The procedure includes three design elements that (together) have... -
Reserve Price and Competing Bids: Reference Points for Product Evaluations i...
With an increasing number of products sold in online auctions, the effect of reference points on consumers’ product valuations has received much attention in the literature. Two... -
Women can´t jump?—An experiment on competitive attitudes and stereotype threa...
Gneezy et al. (2003) offer a partial explanation for the wage gap between men and women. In an experiment they found that women react less to competitive incentives. The task... -
The gender wage gap in experimental labor markets [Dataset]
We analyze the gender wage gap in experimental markets. Women receive but do not request significantly lower wages than men. This hurts firms, as women react with low effort.... -
Factors affecting the uptake of HIV testing among men
This study aimed to explore factors shaping the decision to undergo Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing among men in rural Burkina Faso. The study took place in 2009 in... -
Why do people keep their promises? An experimental test of two explanations
Numerous psychological and economic experiments have shown that the exchange of promises greatly enhances cooperative behavior in experimental games. This paper seeks to test... -
Out-of-pocket Expenditure on Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Rural Malaw...
Data was collected in household survey conducted in the 2 rural districts of Thyolo and Chiradzulu in southern Malawi. The main purpose of the study was to determine the... -
Rage Against the Machines: How Subjects Learn to Play Against Computers [Data...
We use a large-scale internet experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers that are programmed to follow one of a number of standard learning algorithms.... -
How do subjects view multiple sources of ambiguity? [Dataset]
As illustrated by the famous Ellsberg paradox, many subjects prefer to bet on events with known rather than with unknown probabilities, i.e., they are ambiguity averse. In an... -
Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment [Dataset]
The question whether a minimum rate of sick pay should be mandated is much debated. We study the effects of this kind of intervention with student subjects in an experimental... -
Imitation and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior: Theoretically Fragile but ...
A well-known result by Vega-Redondo (1997) [18] implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopolies, imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome. We show that this result is not robust... -
Imitation - Theory and Experimental Evidence [Dataset]
We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation and subject it to rigorous experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the different... -
On the Ingredients for Bubble Formation: Informed Traders and Communication [...
Bubbles in asset markets have been documented in numerous experiments. Most experiments in which bubbles occur feature a declining fundamental value. This feature has been... -
Two are Few and Four are Many: Number Effects in Experimental Oligopoly [Data...
In this paper we investigate how the competitiveness of Cournot markets varies with the number of firms in an industry. We review previous Cournot experiments in the literature.... -
Zur Keramikchronologie der Römischen Kaiserzeit in Ostwestfalen anhand der Si...
Dissertation über römisch-kaiserzeitliche Keramik aus Ostwestfalen, inkl. Datensätzen zu den (keramischen) Funden und den Befunden sowie den durchgeführten Seriation en; zu den... -
Hierarchy, Coercion, and Exploitation: An Experimental Analysis [Dataset]
The power to coerce workers is important for the efficient operation of hierarchically structured organizations. However, this power can also be used by managers to exploit... -
Uniform vs. discriminatory auctions with variable supply – experimental evide...
In the variable supply auction considered here, the seller decides how many customers with unit demand to serve after observing their bids. Bidders are uncertain about the... -
Sick Pay Provision in Experimental Labor Markets [Dataset]
Sick pay is a common provision in most labor contracts. This paper employs an experimental gift exchange environment to explore two related questions using both managers and... -
Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, and Financial Decisions [Dataset]
We study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance in an experiment with a large demographically representative sample of participants. Under...