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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Economic Experiment"”.
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Agents’ Performance and Emotions: An Experimental Investigation
… in performance. On the contrary, the laboratory economic experiment I have run shows that when an anxious mood is induced individuals are more likely to exert more effort. Anxiety leads to performance improvements. In the second essay (Chapter 3) I raise a methodological issue on the use of …
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Not all leaders are created equal: Strong leaders increase group cooperation
… Here, we present evidence from a behavioral economic experiment that tests the effect of leader strength on follower cooperation. Results indicate that strong leaders with a more dominant reputation (acquired through their highly punitive history of behavior) significantly increase follower …
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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: Subsidies, Risk and Tax Evasion
… the federal, state and local levels as part of economic development plans. This dissertation aims to offer information to policymakers on the effectiveness of existing policies and to evaluate how entrepreneurial individuals behave. There are three approaches taken in this dissertation. The …
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Organizational Decision-making in the Age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
… decision-making performance. Using controlled economic experiments, I assign participants with a resource allocation decision-making task (adapted from the game theoretic public goods provision problem) and examine the collaborative outcomes of groups when exposed to different levels of …
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Thatcherism and the restoration of governability
… success and the popularity of the political and economic experiment attempted during her eight years in office. Thatcherism is perhaps most remarkable for guiding Britain out of the dark decades of the 1960's and 1970's when relative economic decline was the chief cause of a governmental and …
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An investigation of the effect of the European currency union (euro) on sectoral trade: an application of the gravity model of trade.
… has been referred to as the worlds largest economic experiment and has led to major research on the effects of the adoption of a common currency on economic activity with considerable emphasis on its effect on trade flows at the macroeconomic level. However, the investigation of the euro …
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Three Essays on Consumer Behavior and Health Outcomes: An Economic Analysis of the Influence of Nutrition Information and Knowledge on Food Purchasing Behavior and the Impacts of Primary Care Givers Parenting on Childhood Obesity
… and health outcomes. The first essay uses experimental economic techniques to explore consumers' preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for nutritionally differentiated grass-fed beef. Our findings suggest that consumers' nutrition knowledge about the functions of Vitamin A, Vitamin E, …
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Decomposing trust into risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs: An experimental analysis
There is a sizeable economic literature dedicated to understanding trust and the extent to which it influences decision making. Although trust is difficult to measure, experimental economics has commonly used the 'amount sent’ in the Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) investment game to elicit levels …
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Three essays in economics
<p>How Many Games Are We Playing: An Experimental Analysis of Choice Bracketing in Games</p> <p>A subject brackets two decisions if she "choose[s] an option in each case without full regard to the other" Rabin (2009). Although in most situations such behavior is unlikely to be optimal, it is well …