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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Life Expectancy in Host Countries: Empirical Analysis
Increasing life expectancy is part of the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and is a primary indicator of overall quality of life. This paper investigates whether Chinese overseas direct ...
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Open AccessAcceptance or rejection of welfare migration—an experimental investigation
We study decisions on welcoming or opposing welfare migration in a laboratory setting with two societies in which one subject can migrate from the poorer to the richer society, provided a majority in the riche...
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Open AccessQuadriceps tendon vs. patellar tendon autograft for ACL reconstruction using a hardware-free press-fit fixation technique: comparable stability, function and return-to-sport level but less donor site morbidity in athletes after 10 years
The use of quadriceps tendon–patellar bone (QTB) autograft for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is gaining momentum. Yet, long-term results that compare this procedure with established methods a...
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Open AccessAggregation mechanisms for crowd predictions
When the information of many individuals is pooled, the resulting aggregate often is a good predictor of unknown quantities or facts. This aggregate predictor frequently outperforms the forecasts of experts or...
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Open AccessWhere to look for the morals in markets?
There is a heated debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. However, it is a challenging task to identify and measure moral behavior in markets. Based on a theoretical model, we...
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Revision ACL reconstruction using quadriceps or hamstring autografts leads to similar results after 4 years: good objective stability but low rate of return to pre-injury sport level
Due to the increased importance of revision ACL reconstruction, this study aims to evaluate the outcome 4 years after the surgery, compare two revision strategies and identify factors that influence the results.
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Open AccessfMRI data of mixed gambles from the Neuroimaging Analysis Replication and Prediction Study
There is an ongoing debate about the replicability of neuroimaging research. It was suggested that one of the main reasons for the high rate of false positive results is the many degrees of freedom researchers...
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Open AccessScale matters: risk perception, return expectations, and investment propensity under different scalings
With a novel experimental design we investigate whether risk perception, return expectations, and investment propensity are influenced by the scale of the vertical axis in charts. We explore this for two prese...
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Open AccessLong-term follow-up after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a press-fit quadriceps tendon-patellar bone autograft
The use of a quadriceps tendon-patellar bone (QTPB) autograft provides an alternative procedure in primary reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Using the press-fit technique for femoral fixa...
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Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
Being able to replicate scientific findings is crucial for scientific progress1–15. We replicate 21 systematically selected experimental studies in the social sciences published in Nature and Science between 2010...
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The influence of investment experience on market prices: laboratory evidence
We run laboratory experiments to analyze the impact of prior investment experience on price efficiency in asset markets. Before subjects enter the asset market they gain either no, positive, or negative invest...
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Erratum to: Multi-period experimental asset markets with distinct fundamental value regimes
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Costly Information in Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: A Model with Genetic Programming
We analyze the value of costly information in agent-based markets with nine distinct information levels. We use genetic programming where agents optimize how much information to buy and how to process it. We f...
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Multi-period experimental asset markets with distinct fundamental value regimes
In this methodological study we analyze price adjustment processes in multi-period laboratory asset markets with five distinct fundamental value ...
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Trader Performance in a Market Experiment with Human and Computerized Traders
We use computerized agents, which trade according to an active information processing strategy, to compare their returns to those of human subjects trading in the same market. All subjects are assigned to one ...
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Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections
Contributions by investor-owned companies play major roles in financing the campaigns of candidates for elective office in the United States. We look at the presidential level and analyze contributions by comp...
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The impact of instructions and procedure on reducing confusion and bubbles in experimental asset markets
In 1988 Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (henceforth SSW) introduced a very influential model to test the efficiency of experimental asset markets. They and many subsequent studies observe that bubbles are robust...
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Unplanned Reoperation and Reintervention after Pancreatic Resections: An Analysis of Risk Factors
The purpose of the study was to determine the incidence of any unplanned reoperation or reintervention procedure after pancreatic resection and to identify the underlying risk factors.
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Experimental asset markets with endogenous choice of costly asymmetric information
Asymmetric distribution of information, while omnipresent in real markets, is rarely considered in experimental financial markets. We present results from experiments where subjects endogenously choose between...
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Bubble measures in experimental asset markets
We review bubble measures which are commonly used in the experimental asset market literature. It seems sensible to require that measures of mispricing should (i) relate the fundamental value and price, (ii) b...
