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Demands And Offers In Ultimatum Games, Jeremiah Wills
Demands And Offers In Ultimatum Games, Jeremiah Wills
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Pecorino and Van Boening (2010) introduce the embedded ultimatum game. The authors embed an ultimatum game into a stylized legal bargaining framework and cross analyze the offer and dispute behavior in this game with the same behavior in a baseline simple ultimatum game. The current study seeks to test the replicability of a computerized version of these games. Additionally, variations of the two games are introduced here to test the effects of specific manipulation of the framing of the simple ultimatum game, as well as to test the effects of specific manipulation of the offer structure in both the simple …
Excess Zeros, Endogenous Binary Indicators, And Self-Selection Bias With Application To First Marriage, Smoking And Drinking Outcomes, Lateef Subair
Excess Zeros, Endogenous Binary Indicators, And Self-Selection Bias With Application To First Marriage, Smoking And Drinking Outcomes, Lateef Subair
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Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management, Xin Che
Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management, Xin Che
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The insurance industry manages a large amount of financial assets. In recent years, a growing number of investment companies are providing insurance asset management solutions, and the use of external asset management by the insurance industry is increasing over time. Therefore, understanding insurance asset management is important for academics and practitioners in both insurance and general finance. In the first essay, we investigate industrial portfolio tilt (referred to as “industry bias”) in the U.S. property liability insurers’ comstock portfolios. We find that U.S. property-liability insurers exhibit a negative industry bias by tilting their portfolios away from their own industry. We …