Author: Peter DürschPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Peter DürschEssays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Christian KochThree Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Sining WangPublisher:
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Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
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The focus of this dissertation is to understand how mental rules of thumb, cognitive biases, and individual differences can lead judgments and decisions to systematically deviate from the theoretical â€optimal†choices. The first essay examines how a decision-maker’s subjective belief is determined by her risk preference in a coordination game. We conduct a laboratory experiment where the participants played a repeated, fixed-partner stag-hunt game. In the experiment, we elicited the participants’ subjective belief, risk aversion and cautiousness levels. Here, we confirm the findings from past studies that suggest that the traditional measure of risk aversion in economics cannot explain people’s behavior. Additionally, we find that the psychological concept of cautiousness plays a key role in determining the origin and the evolution of the decision-maker’s belief. Specifically, we find that cautiousness affects the way people form the mental representation of their partners. A decision-maker with a higher cautiousness level is less likely to believe that her partner will choose the risky option. When the stag-hunt game was played repeatedly, a high cautiousness level prevents the decision-maker from updating her belief effectively, and consequently impedes cooperation between the players. The second essay proposes and experimentally tests the hypothesis that cognitive dissonance associated with the context plays a key role in determining people’s decisions in economic experiments. We conduct a laboratory bribery game experiment where the cognitive dissonance levels are controlled using different treatments (familiar-context treatment, unfamiliar-context treatment, and context-free treatment). With the aid of an independent attitude survey, we find that people in the unfamiliar-context treatment and the context-free treatment experience the same cognitive dissonance level; meanwhile, we do not observe different behavior in the lab. We also find the familiar-context treatment triggers the most intensive cognitive dissonance level among all treatments where the subjects are much less likely to behave unethically. Our theory is able to unify the mixed results from past studies on the experimental context effects. In the third essay, using a unique data set from a sample of recent local college graduates in China, we investigate the effect of agreeableness on the respondents’ starting salary and perceived career satisfaction level. Results from our analyses indicates that agreeableness positively predict women’s starting salary. This effect is highly robust to change in model specifications. However, agreeableness does not impact the men’s starting salary. Our result here suggests that non-cognitive ability (such as personality traits) plays a vital role in determining labor market outcome. In addition, we find that agreeableness positively related with subjective job satisfaction level. But this result is not robust to changes in model specifications. When we add the respondents’ major as a control variable, the effect of agreeableness on job-satisfaction becomes negligible and not statistically significant. This result might suggest a self-sorted story when choosing major. Further examination is required to explore this possibility.
The Selten School of Behavioral Economics
Author: Axel OckenfelsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642139833
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Reinhard Selten, to date the only German Nobel Prize laureate in economics, celebrates his 80th birthday in 2010. While his contributions to game theory are well-known, the behavioral side of his scientific work has received less public exposure, even though he has been committed to experimental research during his entire career, publishing more experimental than theoretical papers in top-tier journals. This Festschrift is dedicated to Reinhard Selten’s exceptional influence on behavioral and experimental economics. In this collection of academic highlight papers, a number of his students are joined by leading scholars in experimental research to document the historical role of the “Meister” in the development of the research methodology and of several sub-fields of behavioral economics. Next to the academic insight in these highly active fields of experimental research, the papers also provide a glance at Reinhard Selten’s academic and personal interaction with his students and peers.
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Jonathan E. AlevyEssays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Andreas Martin FusterEssays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Dam Thi AnhEssays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Ismael Rodríguez-LaraPublisher:
ISBN: 9788469484647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Yaoyao XuEssays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Author: Dmitry TaubinskyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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This dissertation consists of three essays examining the implications of human psychology for economic behavior and market outcomes.