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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Experimental Economics"”.
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Essays in Experimental Economics
… contribute to the field of behavioral economics by using incentivized and unambiguous settings to determine if people base their decisions, in part, on sunk costs. Though standard economic theory would insist that sunk costs do not matter, I find that, at least in small stakes, sunk …
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Essays in Experimental Economics
This thesis has three chapters and employs experimental methods to study human behaviour. Chapter 1 presents a framed interactive online experiment conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) during the first COVID-19 lockdown. The experiment studies social distancing using a repeated game where …
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Stochastic models in experimental economics
… publishing results that showed choices made by experimental subjects which apparently violate one or more of the EUT axioms. I discuss economists' responses to this evidence. These vary from developing new theoretical models, models that nest EUT as a special case, such as Rank Dependent Utility …
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Three Essays in Experimental Economics
… two well-established phenomena in behavioral economics: that human decision makers hold biased beliefs about probability and that free-form communication between economic agents promotes cooperation far in excess of what standard theory predicts. First, Chapter 2 studies subjective …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… thesis contains three essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics. In Chapter 1, I investigate what effect growing up as an only-child has on social and risk preferences, trust, and behaviour in strategic interaction. To do that, I use data from a laboratory experiment in which university …
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Essays in Networks and Experimental Economics
The thesis focuses on networks and experimental economics. The first chapter theoretically studies network coordination games under adaptive learning agents. The second and third chapters conduct experiments on strategic interactions in networks and on network formation, respectively. The fourth …
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Essays in Experimental Economics: Discrimination and Education
… Graduate Education Charles University Essays in Experimental Economics: Discrimination and Education Nikoloz Kudashvili Dissertation Prague, August 2022 Abstract In the first chapter, I study the sources of discrimination. Preference-based discrimination is usually deep-seated and takes a long …
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Essays in experimental economics on contract design
<p>This dissertation contains three related essays which examine contracting environments with moral hazard. I use laboratory experiments to study how across treatment variations affect contractual outcomes including the types of contracts that principals design, the overall efficiency of the …
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Social Context and Decisions : Essays in experimental economics
… gender gap and injustice. Behavioral and Experimental Economics provides a clean tool to keep the internal validity necessary to disentangle complex behavioral aspects that cannot be easily observed in the field, such as those related to the influence of social environment. This Doctoral …
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The Production and Evaluation of Evidence in Experimental Economics
… the production and evaluation of evidence in experimental economics, and it consists of four essays. The first two essays are concerned with the question of how giving decisions are affected by different experimental design choices. We first present our replication of Engel's (2011) meta-study …
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Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis
Two experimental procedures are employed to value both health and environmental benefits from reducing pesticides in Uganda. The first experiment, an incentive compatible auction involves subjects with incomplete information placing bids to avoid consuming potentially contaminated groundnuts/water …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics
In recent decades, behavioral and experimental economics have sig-nificantly influenced the broader discipline of economics. These sub-fields have revitalized interest in incorporating psychological dimen-sions into models of economic behavior. Beyond this conceptual shift, behavioral and …
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Experimental Essays on Singling Out, Emotions, and Electoral Decisions
… of three independent essays in the area of experimental economics. The first investigates the effects of singling out an individual on trust and trustworthiness. The second essay studies the role played by the punishment technology, and the experience and cultural background of the subjects …
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A friendly offer – fairness and social embeddedness = Baráti ajánlat – méltányosság és társadalmi beágyazottság)
… of fairness and embeddedness using tools of experimental economics. I introduce a novel approach, which enables the investigation of the interaction between fairness and embeddedness using dictator and ultimatum games. / === / Értekezésem fő kérdése tehát a méltányossági normák és a …
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Three essays in experimental and labor economics
… three independent essays. Two of them relate to experimental economics, and one to labor economics. The first essay explores through a laboratory experiment the relationship between cognitive costs and imitation dynamics. The second essay investigates in an experimental setting information …
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Regulation of choice behavior : an experiment investigating the hypothesis that people bundle sequences of expected rewards
… first that meets the methodological standards of experimental economics and finds evidence consistent with the presence of reward bundling.
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Handling Risk: Testosterone and Risk Preference, Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
… risk aversion is of increasing interest in the experimental economics. Using the ratio of the second digit to the fourth digit (2D:4D) as a rough indicator of level of prenatal testosterone exposure, this study attempts to replicate recent results from Garbarino et al., (2011), which found that …
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Essays in experimental and development economics
… of three essays on economic development and experimental economics. In Chapter 1, I present experimental evidence about how Thais treat information from domestic and foreign sources. Thai students answer a series of objective general-knowledge questions, both before and after observing …
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Three essays on the drivers of employee motivation
… good job, recognition, and so on. Behavioral and experimental economics incorporate these psychological elements into the standard agency theory, and provide experimental evidence to support their relevance. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the effects on employees' behavior of two of …
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