Search Results - "Mobius, Markus"

Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence by Möbius, Markus M., Niederle, Muriel, Niehaus, Paul, Rosenblat, Tanya S.

“…We use a series of experiments to understand whether and how people’s beliefs about their own abilities are biased relative to the Bayesian benchmark and how…”
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Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks by Leider, Stephen, Möbius, Markus M., Rosenblat, Tanya, Do, Quoc-Anh

“…We conducted online field experiments in large real-world social networks in order to decompose prosocial giving into three components: (1) baseline altruism…”
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Measuring the news and its impact on democracy by Watts, Duncan J., Rothschild, David M., Mobius, Markus

“…Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has generated extraordinary…”
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Consumption Risk-Sharing in Social Networks by Ambrus, Attila, Mobius, Markus, Szeidl, Adam

“…We develop a model in which connections between individuals serve as social collateral to enforce informal insurance payments. We show that: (i) The degree of…”
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Why Beauty Matters by Mobius, Markus M., Rosenblat, Tanya S.

“…We decompose the beauty premium in an experimental labor market where "employers" determine wages of "workers" who perform a maze-solving task. This task…”
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Social Learning in Economics by Mobius, Markus, Rosenblat, Tanya

“…Social learning is a rapidly growing field for empirical and theoretical research in economics. We encounter social learning in many economically important…”
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Community Size and Network Closure by Allcott, by Hunt, Karlan, Dean, Möbius, Markus M., Rosenblat, Tanya S., Szeidl, Adam

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Research note: Examining potential bias in large-scale censored data by Jennifer Allen, Markus Mobius, David M. Rothschild, Duncan J. Watts

“…We examine potential bias in Facebook’s 10-trillion cell URLs dataset, consisting of URLs shared on its platform and their engagement metrics. Despite the…”
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Getting Closer or Drifting Apart? by Rosenblat, Tanya S., Mobius, Markus M.

“…Advances in communication and transportation technologies have the potential to bring people closer together and create a “global village.” However, they also…”
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COMPETING AUCTIONS by Ellison, Glenn, Fudenberg, Drew, Möbius, Markus

“…This paper shows that larger auctions are more efficient than smaller ones, but that despite this scale effect, two competing and otherwise identical markets…”
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What Do We Expect from Our Friends? by Leider, Stephen, Möbius, Markus M., Rosenblat, Tanya, Do, Quoc-Anh

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Existence of equilibrium in large double auctions by Fudenberg, Drew, Mobius, Markus, Szeidl, Adam

“…We show the existence of a pure strategy, symmetric, increasing equilibrium in double auction markets with correlated, conditionally independent private values…”
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What do we Expect from our Friends? by Leider, Stephen, Rosenblat, Tanya, Möbius, Markus M., Do, Quoc-Anh

“…We conduct a field experiment in a large real-world social network to examine how subjects expect to be treated by their friends and by strangers who make…”
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Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem by Allen, Jennifer, Howland, Baird, Mobius, Markus, Rothschild, David, Watts, Duncan J

“…"Fake news," broadly defined as false or misleading information masquerading as legitimate news, is frequently asserted to be pervasive online with serious…”
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Trust and Social Collateral by Karlan, Dean, Mobius, Markus, Rosenblat, Tanya, Szeidl, Adam

“…This paper builds a theory of trust based on informal contract enforcement in social networks. In our model, network connections between individuals can be…”
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Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube by Hosseinmardi, Homa, Ghasemian, Amir, Clauset, Aaron, Mobius, Markus, Rothschild, David M., Watts, Duncan J.

“…Although it is under-studied relative to other social media platforms, YouTube is arguably the largest and most engaging online media consumption platform in…”
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Naïve Learning with Uninformed Agents by Banerjee, Abhijit, Breza, Emily, Chandrasekhar, Arun G., Mobius, Markus

“…The DeGroot model has emerged as a credible alternative to the standard Bayesian model for studying learning on networks, offering a natural way to model naïve…”
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Ethnic discrimination: Evidence from China by Mobius, Markus, Rosenblat, Tanya, Wang, Qiqi

“…We study the role of ethnicity in experimental labor markets where “employers” determine wages of “workers” who perform a real effort task. This task requires…”
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Comparing Estimates of News Consumption from Survey and Passively Collected Behavioral Data by Konitzer, Tobias, Allen, Jennifer, Eckman, Stephanie, Howland, Baird, Mobius, Markus, Rothschild, David, Watts, Duncan J

“…Abstract Surveys are a vital tool for understanding public opinion and knowledge, but they can also yield biased estimates of behavior. Here we explore a…”
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Do Celebrity Endorsements Matter? A Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia by Alatas, Vivi, Chandrasekhar, Arun G, Mobius, Markus, Olken, Benjamin A, Paladines, Cindy

“…Do celebrity endorsements matter? And if so, how can celebrities communicate effectively? We conduct a nationwide Twitter experiment in Indonesia promoting…”
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