Belief elicitation and behavioral incentive compatibility

D Danz, L Vesterlund, AJ Wilson - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Subjective beliefs are crucial for economic inference, yet behavior can challenge the
elicitation. We propose that belief elicitation should be incentive compatible not only …

Cognitive uncertainty

B Enke, T Graeber - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article documents the economic relevance of measuring cognitive uncertainty: people's
subjective uncertainty over their ex ante utility-maximizing decision. In a series of …

Managing self-confidence: Theory and experimental evidence

Evidence from social psychology suggests that agents process information about their own
ability in a biased manner. This evidence has motivated exciting research in behavioral …

Good news and bad news are still news: Experimental evidence on belief updating

A Coutts - Experimental Economics, 2019 - Springer
Bayesian updating remains the benchmark for dynamic modeling under uncertainty within
economics. Recent theory and evidence suggest individuals may process information …

Managing self-confidence: Theory and experimental evidence

MM Möbius, M Niederle, P Niehaus… - Management …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We use a series of experiments to understand whether and how people's beliefs about their
own abilities are biased relative to the Bayesian benchmark and how these beliefs then …

Belief elicitation: Limiting truth telling with information on incentives

D Danz, L Vesterlund, AJ Wilson - 2020 - nber.org
Belief elicitation is central to inference on economic decision making. The recently
introduced Binarized Scoring Rule (BSR) is heralded for its robustness to individuals …

Incentivized and non-incentivized liking ratings outperformwillingness-to-pay in predicting choice

J Hascher, N Desai, I Krajbich - Judgment and Decision Making, 2021 - cambridge.org
A core principle in decision science is that people choose according to their subjective
values. These values are often measured using unincentivized scales with arbitrary units …

Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Crowdfunders (WITHDRAWN)

C Siemroth, L Hornuf - Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022 - journals.aom.org
Are investors willing to give up a higher return if the investment generates positive
environmental impact? We investigate this question with a decision experiment among …

[HTML][HTML] Why do retail investors pick green investments? A lab-in-the-field experiment with crowdfunders

C Siemroth, L Hornuf - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
Do investors invest in green projects because they expect higher returns, to help the
environment, or to help other people? To separate these motivations, we run a decision …

Online belief elicitation methods

V Burdea, J Woon - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
How well do incentivized belief elicitation procedures work in online settings? We evaluate
the quality of beliefs elicited from online respondents, comparing several characteristics of …