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作者:Jackson, Matthew O.; Morelli, Massimo
作者单位:Stanford University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:We examine how countries' incentives to go to war depend on the political bias of their pivotal decision makers. This bias is measured by a decision maker's risk/reward ratio from a war compared to that of the country at large. If there is no political bias, then there are mutually acceptable transfers from one country to the other that will avoid a war in the presence of commitment or enforceability of peace treaties. There are cases with a strong enough bias on the part of one or both countr...
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作者:Alesina, Alberto; Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola
作者单位:Harvard University
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作者:Casari, Marco; Ham, John C.; Kagel, John H.
作者单位:Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Southern California; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Inexperienced women, along with economics and business majors, are much more susceptible to the winner's curse, as are subjects with lower SAT/ACT scores. There are strong selection effects in bid function estimates for inexperienced and experienced subjects due to bankruptcies and bidders who have lower earnings returning less frequently as experienced subjects. These selection effects are not identified using standard econometric techniques but are identified through experimental treatment e...
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作者:Charness, Gary; Rigotti, Luca; Rustichini, Aldo
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Duke University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:People who are members of a group and identify with it behave differently from people who perceive themselves as isolated individuals. This paper shows that group membership affects preferences over outcomes, and saliency of the group affects the perception of the environment. We manipulate the saliency of group membership by letting a player's own group watch as a passive audience as decisions are made, and/or by making part of the payoff common for members of the group. In contrast to the mi...
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作者:Filiz-Ozbay, Emel; Ozbay, Erkut Y.
作者单位:Columbia University; New York University