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Beliefs and social behavior in a multi-period ultimatum game

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015
We conduct a multi-period ultimatum game in which we elicit players’ beliefs. Responders do not predict accurately the amount that will be offered to them, and do not get better in their predictions over time.
Ofer Haim Azar, Yaron eLahav, Alisa eVoslinsky   +2 more
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Toward a cognitive science of markets: economic agents as sense-makers

Economics: Journal Articles, 2019
Behavioral economics aspires to replace the agents of neoclassical economics with living, breathing human beings. Here, the author argues that behavioral economics, like its neoclassical counterpart, often neglects the role of active sense-making that ...
Johnson Samuel G.B.
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Valuing Ambiguity: The Case of Genetically Engineered Growth Enhancers

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1993
A split-valuation method is developed and implemented to elicit the willingness to pay to consume- or avoid consuming- a product of ambiguous quality.
Brian L. Buhr, Dermot J. Hayes, Jason F. Shogren, James B. Kliebenstein   +3 more
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Guilt Aversion and the Financial Behavior of Individuals: The Moderating Role of Ethical Ideologies [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance
In the rapidly advancing economic and technological landscape, the importance of ethical considerations in individual decision-making has gained unprecedented attention.
Mahsa Esmaeili, Alireza Fazlzadeh, Vahid Ahmadian, Sajad Nagdi   +3 more
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Measuring trust: an experiment in Brazil

Economia Aplicada, 2005
Attitudinal measures of trust, such as those employed by the World Values Survey (WVS) or the General Social Survey (GSS), have been shown to be correlated with important country-level variables reflecting economic and institutional development. However,
Sergio G. Lazzarini, Regina Madalozzo, Rinaldo Artes, José de Oliveira Siqueira   +3 more
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Behavioral Approach to Organizational Choice in Tajikistan's Agriculture

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018
Most communist economies were dominated by large collective farms. Today, smaller family farms often coexist with larger corporate and collective farms in these countries.
Malte Muller, Jens Rommel
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Writing good economics: How texts 'on the move' perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics. [PDF]

Soc Stud Sci, 2022
Asdal K, Cointe B.
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Chimpanzees Rarely Settle on Consistent Patterns of Play in the Hawk Dove, Assurance, and Prisoner's Dilemma Games, in a Token Exchange Task

Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2019
Games derived from experimental economics can be used to directly compare decision-making behavior across primate species, including humans. For example, the use of coordination games, such as the Assurance game, has shown that a variety of primate ...
Katie Hall , Mackenzie Smith , Jamie L. Russell , Susan P. Lambeth , Steven J. Schapiro , Sarah F. Brosnan   +5 more
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Do Fishermen Have Different Attitudes toward Risk? An Application of Prospect Theory to the Study of Vietnamese Fishermen

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009
Field experiment and household survey data are combined to investigate whether working in a risky occupation such as fishing makes fishermen have different risk preferences than individuals in other occupations.
Quang Nguyen, PingSun Leung
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Understanding the Inefficiency of Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
The security-constrained economic dispatch (SCED) problem tries to maintain the reliability of a power network by ensuring that a single failure does not lead to a global outage. The previous research has mainly investigated SCED by formulating the problem in different modalities, e.g. preventive or corrective, and devising efficient solutions for SCED.
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