Belief elicitation in the laboratory

A Schotter, I Trevino - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
One constraint we face as economists is not being able to observe all the relevant variables
required to test our theories or make policy prescriptions. Laboratory techniques allow us to …

Experimental auctions

JL Lusk, JF Shogren - Cambridge Books, 2007 - ideas.repec.org
Economists, psychologists, and marketers are interested in determining the monetary value
people place on non-market goods for a variety of reasons: to carry out cost-benefit analysis …

An overview of applications of proper scoring rules

A Carvalho - Decision Analysis, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present a study on the evolution of publications about applications of proper scoring
rules. Specifically, we consider articles reporting the use of proper scoring rules when either …

A penny for your thoughts: A survey of methods for eliciting beliefs

KH Schlag, J Tremewan, JJ Van der Weele - Experimental Economics, 2015 - Springer
Incentivized methods for eliciting subjective probabilities in economic experiments present
the subject with risky choices that encourage truthful reporting. We discuss the most …

Institution formation in public goods games

M Kosfeld, A Okada, A Riedl - American Economic Review, 2009 - aeaweb.org
Sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and
enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. We …

The right amount of trust

JV Butler, P Giuliano, L Guiso - Journal of the European …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic
performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of …

Stated beliefs and play in normal-form games

MA Costa-Gomes, G Weizsäcker - The Review of Economic …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Using data on one-shot games, we investigate whether players' actions can be viewed as
responses to underlying expectations about their opponent's behaviour. In our laboratory …

Belief elicitation in experiments: is there a hedging problem?

M Blanco, D Engelmann, AK Koch… - Experimental economics, 2010 - Springer
Belief-elicitation experiments usually reward accuracy of stated beliefs in addition to
payments for other decisions. But this allows risk-averse subjects to hedge with their stated …

Myopic social prediction and the solo comparison effect.

DA Moore, TG Kim - Journal of personality and social psychology, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Four experiments explored the psychological processes by which people make comparative
social judgments. Each participant chose how much money to wager on beating an …

Limited depth of reasoning and failure of cascade formation in the laboratory

D Kübler, G Weizsäcker - The Review of Economic Studies, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We examine the robustness of information cascades in laboratory experiments. Apart from
the situation in which each player can obtain a signal for free (as in the experiment by …