An Experimental Analysis of the Prize-Probability Tradeoff in Stopping Problems

We experimentally examine how individuals commit to a cutoff stopping rule when facing a sequence of independent lotteries. We identify two main behavior patterns: (1) a small share of participants consistently choose stopping rules whose gain bound (i.e., the accumulated gain at which the sequence...

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Veröffentlicht in:The review of economics and statistics 2023-09, p.1-45
Hauptverfasser: Antler, Yair, Arad, Ayala
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Sprache:eng
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