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Gaining Experience as Principal or Agent. An Experimental Study
We study experimentally whether decisions in a principal-agent model differ when subjects gain experience by changing roles rather being in a fixed role over time. In addition, we examine whether increasing principals’ profit opportunities has an impact on their decisions. To this aim,&...
Optimistic and stubborn: An experimental analysis of the disposition effect
The disposition effect (DE) is a common bias by which investors tend to sell profitable assets too soon and hold losing assets too long. We investigate psychological correlates of the DE in a standard experimental environment and find that subjects scoring high in optimism and...
Boys will (still) be boys: Gender differences in trading activity are not due to differences in confidence
The fact that men trade more than women in financial markets has been attributed to men’s overconfidence. However, evidence supporting this view is only indirect. We directly test this conjecture experimentally, by measuring confidence using monetary incentives before participants trade in a...
The disposition effect: who and when?
The disposition effect (DE) is a common investment bias consisting of the tendency to sell profitable assets and hold losing assets. We investigate individual determinants of the DE in a standard experimental environment as well as one with transaction costs and one with a com...
Scoring Rules in Experimental Procurement
We report the results of a procurement experiments where subjects compete for procurement contracts to be awarded by means of a scoring auction. Two experimental conditions are considered, depending on the relative quality-price weight in the scoring rule. We show that different quality...
