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Colin Camerer

California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Rea A. & Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics

1200 East California Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91125

United States

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1.

Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 17 Sep 2004
Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and MIT Sloan
Downloads 3,249 (2,198)
Citation 132

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Neuroeconomics, neuroscience

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Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism'

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, p. 1211, 2003, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 225
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2010
Colin Camerer, Samuel Issacharoff, George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University School of Law, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
Downloads 2,835 (2,760)
Citation 87

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behavioral economics, regulation, paternalism

3.

Behavioral Game Theory: Thinking, Learning and Teaching

Caltech Working Paper
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Colin Camerer, Teck Ho and Kuan Chong
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Marketing
Downloads 2,265 (3,787)
Citation 73

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experimental economics, game theory, behavioral game theory, bounded rationality, behavioral economics, learning

4.

The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 31 Dec 2011
Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

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Citation 59

Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

IEER Working Paper No. 97
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Feb 2002
Colin Camerer and Ernst Fehr
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Zurich - Department of Economics
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Citation 59

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Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIALITY - EXPERIMENTAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FROM 15 SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES, Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Jun 2002
Colin Camerer and Ernst Fehr
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Zurich - Department of Economics

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6.

Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-10
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Aug 2001
Colin Camerer and Roberto A. Weber
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Zurich - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,506 (8,625)
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Risk and Time Preferences: Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Jan 2006
Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer and Quang Nguyen
The World Bank, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Downloads 823 (21,605)
Citation 29

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Prospect theory, Time discounting, Field experiment

8.

Using Neural Data to Test A Theory of Investor Behavior: An Application to Realization Utility

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Using Neural Data to Test A Theory of Investor Behavior: An Application to Realization Utility

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 23 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 22 May 2013
Cary Frydman, Nicholas Barberis, Colin Camerer, Peter Bossaerts and Antonio Rangel
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Yale School of Management, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory and California Institute of Technology
Downloads 541 (39,873)

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neuroeconomics, trading, disposition effect, realization utility

Using Neural Data to Test a Theory of Investor Behavior: An Application to Realization Utility

NBER Working Paper No. w18562
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Nov 2012
Cary Frydman, Nicholas Barberis, Colin Camerer, Peter Bossaerts and Antonio Rangel
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Yale School of Management, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory and California Institute of Technology
Downloads 33 (394,314)

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The Wick in the Candle of Learning: Epistemic Curiosity Activates Reward Circuitry and Enhances Memory

Psychological Science
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 01 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2008
Min Jeong Kang, Ming Hsu, Ian M. Krajbich, George Loewenstein, Samuel M. McClure, Joseph Tao-yi Wang and Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Stanford University - Psychology, National Taiwan University - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Citation 2

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Neuroimaging, Memory, Learning, Brain

10.

To Review or Not to Review? Limited Strategic Thinking at the Movie Box Office

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Citation 2

To Review or Not to Review? Limited Strategic Thinking at the Movie Box Office

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2009
Alexander L. Brown, Colin Camerer and Dan Lovallo
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Western Australia
Downloads 282 (87,364)
Citation 2

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behavioral game theory, limited strategic thinking, voluntary disclosure, experimental economics

To Review or Not to Review? Limited Strategic Thinking at the Movie Box Office

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4(2): 1-26, May 2012
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Aug 2012
Alexander L. Brown, Colin Camerer and Dan Lovallo
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Western Australia
Downloads 23 (439,343)
Citation 2

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behavioral game theory, limited strategic thinking, voluntary disclosure, experimental economics

11.

A Cognitive Hierarchy Theory of One-shot Games and Experimental Analysis

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Oct 2003
Colin Camerer, Teck Ho and Juin-Kuan Chong
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and National University of Singapore (NUS) - NUS Business School
Downloads 294 (73,427)
Citation 16

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Self-Referential Thinking and Equilibrium as States of Mind in Games: Fmri Evidence

Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 52, pp. 424-459, August 2005
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Meghana Bhatt and Colin Camerer
Human Neuroimaging Lab, BCM and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 250 (95,148)
Citation 13

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Neuroeconomics, fMRI, game theory, strategic, second order beliefs

13.

Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show

American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. 402-407, May 2015
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 16 May 2015
Dennie van Dolder, Martijn J. van den Assem, Colin Camerer and Richard H. Thaler
Nottingham School of Economics - University of Nottingham, VU University Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 192 (79,549)

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bargaining, negotiation, game show, natural experiment, equity theory, moral property rights, entitlements, fairness, concessions, first-mover advantage

14.

Testing Game Theory in the Field: Swedish LUPI Lottery Games

SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 671
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 23 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2010
Robert Ostling, Joseph Tao-yi Wang, Eileen Y. Chou and Colin Camerer
Institute for International Economic Studies, National Taiwan University - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 166 (134,274)
Citation 1

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Population uncertainty, Poisson game, guessing game, experimental methods, behavioral game theory, level-k, cognitive hierarchy

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Partition-Dependent Framing Effects in Lab and Field Prediction Markets

A later version of this working paper has been published under the title: "How psychological framing affects economic market prices in the lab and field" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) - published ahead of print July 1, 2013 doi:10.1073/pnas.1206326110
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 03 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2013
Ulrich Sonnemann, Colin Camerer, Craig R. Fox and Thomas Langer
University of Muenster - Finance Center Muenster, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Muenster - Finance Center
Downloads 162 (139,081)
Citation 2

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prediction markets, framing efforts

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The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps

Downloads 160 (152,728)
Citation 3

The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Apr 2005
C. Monica Capra, Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer, Lauren Munyan, Veronica Sovero, Lisa wang and Charles N. Noussair
CGU, The World Bank, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Tilburg University
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Citation 3

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Economic growth, development, experimental economics, institutions, political economy

The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps

Economic Journal, Vol. 119, No. 539, pp. 977-1009, July 2009
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Jun 2009
C. Monica Capra, Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer, Lauren Feiler, Veronica Sovero and Charles N. Noussair
CGU, The World Bank, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN, California Institute of Technology and Tilburg University
Downloads 2 (558,210)
Citation 3

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Pinocchio's Pupil: Using Eyetracking and Pupil Dilation to Understand Truth-Telling and Deception in Sender-Receiver Game

American Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 20 Sep 2009
Joseph Tao-yi Wang, Michael Spezio and Colin Camerer
National Taiwan University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 154 (91,016)
Citation 13

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Cheap talk, Truth-bias, Lie detection, behavioral game theory, eyetracking, experimental economics, behavioral economics

18.

Neural Evidence of Regret and Its Implications for Investor Behavior

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 02.16
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 30 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2016
Cary Frydman and Colin Camerer
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 153 (68,578)

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investor behavior, neurofinance, behavioral finance, regret, repurchase effect, disposition effect

19.

Bankruptcy Rates Among NFL Players with Short-Lived Income Spikes

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Bankruptcy Rates Among NFL Players with Short-Lived Income Spikes

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Aug 2015
Kyle Carlson, Joshua Kim, Annamaria Lusardi and Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Washington, George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 77 (262,444)

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financial literacy, bankruptcy, NFL

Bankruptcy Rates Among NFL Players with Short-Lived Income Spikes

NBER Working Paper No. w21085
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Apr 2015
Kyle Carlson, Joshua Kim, Annamaria Lusardi and Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Washington, George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 73 (270,984)

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The Role of Tacit Routines in Coordinating Activity

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Feb 2005
Scott Rick, Roberto A. Weber and Colin Camerer
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Zurich - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 115 (193,052)
Citation 1

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organizational coordination, experimental economics

21.

Anxiety and Learning in Dynamic and Static Clock Game Experiments

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Sep 2010
Min Jeong Kang, Debajyoti Ray and Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 91 (226,428)

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Clock Games, Anxiety, Learning, Experimental Economics, Behavioural GameTheory, Price Bubbles

22.

Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(1): 197-231, February 2009
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2012
Alexander L. Brown, Zhikang Eric Chua and Colin Camerer
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics, Singapore Public Service Commission (PSC) and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 88 (239,598)
Citation 10

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behavioral economics, dynamic optimization, experimental economics, hyperbolic discounting, lifecycle savings, social learning

23.

fMRI Evidence of a Hot-Cold Empathy Gap in Hypothetical and Real Aversive Choices

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Jun 2012
Min Jeong Kang and Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 66 (223,323)

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Hypothetical bias, aversive bads, fMRI, medial prefrontal cortex, amygdala

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Detecting Failures of Backward Induction: Monitoring Information Search in Sequential Bargaining

Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 104, No. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Jan 2009
Eric J. Johnson, Colin Camerer, Sankar Sen and Talia Rymon
Columbia Business School - Marketing, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Marketing and International Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 56 (300,324)
Citation 45

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bargaining, experimental economics, bounded rationality, behavioral economics, behavioral game theory, fairness, limited cognition

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A Correction and Re-Examination of 'Stationary Concepts for Experimental 2x2 Games'

American Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Oct 2010
Christoph Brunner, Colin Camerer and Jacob K. Goeree
University of Heidelberg, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Zurich
Downloads 55 (290,606)
Citation 1

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stationary concepts, quantal response, action-sampling, payoff-sampling, impulse balance

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Measuring Attention and Strategic Behavior in Games with Private Information

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Citation 2

Measuring Attention and Strategic Behavior in Games with Private Information

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 31 Oct 2009
Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo, Stephanie W. Wang and Colin Camerer
University of Southern California - Department of Economics, University of Southern California - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 49 (333,315)
Citation 2

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Measuring Attention and Strategic Behavior in Games with Private Information

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7529
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Isabelle Brocas, Colin Camerer, Juan D. Carrillo and Stephanie W. Wang
University of Southern California - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Southern California - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 5 (540,297)
Citation 2

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asymmetric information, attention, laboratory experiment, mousetracking

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Using Eyetracking to Study Learning in Games

Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Sep 2009
Daniel T. Knoepfle, Joseph Tao-yi Wang and Colin Camerer
Uber Technologies Inc., National Taiwan University - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 51 (300,324)

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Eye-tracking, reinforcement, self-tuned EWA, anticipatory learning

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Measuring Norms of Income Transfers: Trust Experiments and Survey Data from Vietnam

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2010
Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer and Quang Nguyen
The World Bank, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 27 (373,490)
Citation 1

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Estimating Structural Models of Equilibrium and Cognitive Hierarchy Thinking in the Field: The Case of Withheld Movie Critic Reviews

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Aug 2012
Alexander L. Brown, Colin Camerer and Dan Lovallo
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Western Australia
Downloads 26 (366,364)
Citation 1

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decision analysis, game theory, economics, econometrics, marketing, competitive strategy, bounded rationality, psychology

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Neuroeconomics: Why Economics Needs Brains

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 555-579, September 2004
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Feb 2005
Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and MIT Sloan
Downloads 16 (462,136)
Citation 12

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Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices

NBER Working Paper No. w19270
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Aug 2013
Alec Smith, B. Douglas Bernheim, Colin Camerer and Antonio Rangel
California Institute of Technology, Stanford University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and California Institute of Technology
Downloads 15 (431,109)

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Neuroeconomics: Using Neuroscience to Make Economic Predictions

Economic Journal, Vol. 117, No. 519, pp. C26-C42, March 2007
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 May 2007
Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 11 (487,950)
Citation 12

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Individual Differences in EWA Learning with Partial Payoff Information

The Economic Journal, Vol. 118, Issue 525, pp. 37-59, January 2008
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Dec 2007
Teck H. Ho, Xin Wang and Colin Camerer
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 8 (502,643)
Citation 6

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Code Creation in Endogenous Merger Experiments

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 337-352, April 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Mar 2010
Lauren Feiler and Colin Camerer
affiliation not provided to SSRN and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads 2 (531,584)

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Willingness-to-Pay and Willingness-to-Accept Are Probably Less Correlated Than You Think

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6492
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jun 2017
Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Colin Camerer and Mark Dean
New York University (NYU) - New York University Abu Dhabi, Columbia University, Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Brown University - Department of Economics
Downloads 0 (457,077)

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Willingness to Pay, Willingness to Accept, Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, Risk Aversion

36.

Goals, Methods, and Progress in Neuroeconomics

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 5, pp. 425-455, 2013
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
Colin Camerer
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam

Tanaka, Tomomi, Colin F. Camerer, and Quang Nguyen. 2010. "Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam." American Economic Review, 100(1): 557-71., American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 1, 2010
Posted: 03 Jul 2013
Tomomi Tanaka, Colin Camerer and Quang Nguyen
The World Bank, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

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Risk and time preferences, experiment, Vietnam Risk and Time Preferences, Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam

38.

Experience-Weighted Attraction Learning In Sender-Receiver Signaling Games

Economic Theory, Vol. 16, No. 3
Posted: 24 Mar 2001
Christopher M. Anderson and Colin Camerer
University of Rhode Island - Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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