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econ.GN2026
The Joneses Visit an Economics Lab
Mikhail Freer, Daniel Friedman, Christian Ghiglino +1
Existing literature offers persuasive evidence that individuals care about how their consumption compares to that of peers, and proposes a large variety of explanatory models. The…
econ.GN2023
Motives for Delegating Financial Decisions
Mikhail Freer, Daniel Friedman, Simon Weidenholzer
Why do some investors delegate financial decisions to supposed experts? We report a laboratory experiment designed to disentangle four possible motives. Almost 600 investors drawn…