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Anchoring in Experimental Asset Markets
(2015-02-10)
We investigate the relationship between anchoring and the emergence of bubbles in experimental asset markets. We show that setting a visual anchor at the fundamental value (FV) in the first period only is sufficient to ...
Compensation Schemes, Liquidity Provision, and Asset Prices: An Experimental Analysis
(2015-06-01)
In an experimental setting in which investors can entrust their money to traders, we investigate how compensation schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At ...
Women form social networks more selectively and less opportunistically than men
(2017-03-01)
We test two hypotheses, based on sexual selection theory, about gender differences in costly social interactions. Differential selectivity states that women invest less than men in interactions with new individuals. ...
Pushing Through or Slacking Off? Heterogeneity in the Reaction to Rank Feedback
(2018-03-30)
This paper studies heterogeneity in the reaction to rank feedback. In a laboratory experiment, individuals take part in a series of dynamic real-effort contests with intermediate feedback. To solve the identification problem ...
On the (ir)relevance of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments
(2020-08-31)
Incentivized experiments in which individuals receive monetary rewards according to the outcomes of their decisions are regarded as the gold standard for preference elicitation in experimental economics. These task-related ...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Machine Predictions and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
(2021-04-20)
We show that disclosing machine predictions to affected parties can trigger self-fulfilling prophecies. In an investment game, we experimentally vary investors’ and recipients’ access to a machine prediction about recipients’ ...
Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
(2021-07-24)
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate ...