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Behavioral Risk Profiling: Measuring Loss Aversion of Individual Investors
Loss aversion has been shown to be an important driver of people’s investment decisions. Encouraged by regulators, financial …
Dennie van Dolder
,
Jurgen Vandenbroucke
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Media: De Tijd (Dutch)
Media: L'Echo (French)
Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes
We examine gender differences in willingness to compete, using data from a TV game show where in each episode the winner of an …
Dennie van Dolder
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Thomas Buser
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Journal article
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Media: Süddeutsche Zeitung (German)
Does Losing Lead to Winning? An Empirical Analysis for Four Sports
Berger and Pope (2011) show that being slightly behind increases the likelihood of winning in professional (NBA) and collegiate (NCAA) …
Bouke Klein Teeselink
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
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Journal article
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High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction
We examine high-stakes strategic choice using more than 40 years of data from the American TV game show The Price Is Right. In every …
Bouke Klein Teeselink
,
Dennie van Dolder
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Jason Dana
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The Description-Experience Gap in Cooperation
Conditional cooperation is usually investigated in experiments where the choices of others are known. In many circumstances, however, …
Ozan Isler
,
Orestis Kopsacheilis
,
Dennie van Dolder
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Can the Market Divide and Multiply? A Case of 807 Percent Mispricing
This paper documents a strong violation of the law of one price surrounding a large rights issue. If prices are right, the relation …
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
,
Remco C.J. Zwinkels
,
Marc B.J. Schauten
Journal article
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Media: Wall Street Journal
Nudging Student Participation in Online Evaluations of Teaching: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper reports the results of a large randomized field experiment that investigates the extent to which nudges can stimulate …
Susanne Neckermann
,
Uyanga Turmunkh
,
Dennie van Dolder
,
Tong V. Wang
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Do Descriptive Social Norms Drive Peer Punishment? Conditional Punishment Strategies and Their Impact on Cooperation
Peer punishment is widely considered a key mechanism supporting cooperation in human groups. Although much research shows that human …
Xueheng Li
,
Lucas Molleman
,
Dennie van Dolder
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Journal article
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Prince: An Improved Method for Measuring Incentivized Preferences
This paper introduces the Prince incentive system for measuring preferences. Prince is a variation of the random incentive system that …
Cathleen A. Johnson
,
Aurélien Baillon
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Han Bleichrodt
,
Zhihua Li
,
Dennie van Dolder
,
Peter P. Wakker
Journal article
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Incentives, Performance and Choking in Darts
This paper examines how within-match variation in incentives affects the performance of darts players. The game of darts offers an …
Bouke Klein Teeselink
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Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon
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Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Malleable Lies: Communication and Cooperation in a High Stakes TV Game Show
We investigate the credibility of non-binding pre-play statements about cooperative behavior, using data from a high-stakes TV game …
Uyanga Turmunkh
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
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Journal article
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The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in Social Decision Making
We demonstrate that a person’s eye gaze and his/her competitiveness are closely intertwined in social decision making. In an …
Mauro Giacomantonio
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Jennifer Jordan
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Francesca Federico
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Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Blog: The Conversation
The Wisdom of the Inner Crowd in Three Large Natural Experiments
The quality of decisions depends on the accuracy of estimates of relevant quantities. According to the wisdom of crowds principle, …
Dennie van Dolder
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
Summary
Journal article
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News and views by Ed Vul
Media: Bloomberg
Media: Cosmos Magazine
Media: Yahoo
Comparing Uncertainty Aversion Towards Different Sources
We propose simple behavioral definitions of comparative uncertainty aversion for a single agent towards different sources of …
Aurélien Baillon
,
Ning Liu
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Risky Choice in the Limelight
This paper examines how risk behavior in the limelight differs from that in anonymity. In two separate experiments, we find that …
Guido Baltussen
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Media: Financial Times
Media: The Times
Blog: The Conversation
Number Preferences in Lotteries
We explore people’s preferences for numbers in large proprietary data sets from two different lottery games. We find that choice is far …
Tong V. Wang
,
Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon
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Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Media: Wall Street Journal
Media: NOS (Dutch)
Media: Algemeen Dagblad (Dutch)
Media: BNR (Dutch)
Media: De Morgen (Dutch)
Media: RTL (Dutch)
Measuring Loss Aversion under Ambiguity: A Method to Make Prospect Theory Completely Observable
We propose a simple, parameter-free method that, for the first time, makes it possible to completely observe Tversky and Kahneman’s …
Mohammed Abdellaoui
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Han Bleichrodt
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Olivier L’Haridon
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Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Media: De Tijd (Dutch)
Media: L'Echo (French)
Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show
We examine high stakes three-person bargaining in a game show where contestants bargain over a large money amount that is split into …
Dennie van Dolder
,
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Colin F. Camerer
,
Richard H. Thaler
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker
A major issue in the widespread controversy about the legality of poker and the appropriate taxation of winnings is whether poker …
Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon
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Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Media: Newsweek
Media: The Independent 1/2
Media: The Independent 2/2
Media: The Times
Media: Daily Mail
Blog: The Conversation
Individual Choices in Dynamic Networks: An Experiment on Social Preferences
Game-theoretic models of network formation typically assume that people create relations so as to maximize their own outcome in the …
Dennie van Dolder
,
Vincent Buskens
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
On the Social Nature of Eyes: The Effect of Social Cues in Interaction and Individual Choice Tasks
In an experimental setting, we applied a dual strategy to better understand the effect of pictures of eyes on human behavior. First, we …
Aurélien Baillon
,
Asli Selim
,
Dennie van Dolder
Journal article
Working paper on SSRN
Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large
We examine cooperative behavior when large sums of money are at stake, using data from the television game show Golden Balls. At the …
Martijn J. van den Assem
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Dennie van Dolder
,
Richard H. Thaler
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Journal article
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Media: FSR Forum
Media: Tijdschrift voor het Economisch Onderwijs (Dutch)
Coöperatie in Spelshows (Cooperation in Game Shows)
In this chapter, we argue that game shows can be a useful source of data to study cooperative behavior. The unique combination of …
Martijn J. van den Assem
,
Dennie van Dolder
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Social Motives in Network Formation: An Experiment
Literature on network formation typically assumes that people create and remove relations as to maximize their outcome in the network. …
Dennie van Dolder
,
Vincent Buskens
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