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Alexander Coutts

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Schulich School of Business
York University

Toronto, Canada
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Working papers

  1. Alexander Coutts & Boon Han Koh & Zahra Murad, 2024. "The signals we give: Performance feedback, gender, and competition," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2024-02, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
  2. Rute M. Caeiro & Alexander Coutts & Teresa Molina-Millan & Pedro C. Vicente, 2022. "Follow the leader: community-based health insurance in West Africa," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2206, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
  3. Alexander Coutts & Teresa Molina-Millan & Pedro C. Vicente, 2022. "Belief systems and health behaviors in Guinea-Bissau," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2207, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
  4. Armand, Alex & Coutts, Alexander & Vicente, Pedro & Vilela, Dr. Ines, 2021. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games," CEPR Discussion Papers 16596, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Alex Armand & Alexander Coutts & Pedro C. Vicente & Ines Vilela, 2019. "Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique," IFS Working Papers W19/01, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
  6. Alexander Coutts, 2019. "Identifying communication spillovers in lab in the field experiments," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp1903, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
  7. Alexander Coutts, 2017. "Good news and bad news are still news: Experimental evidence on belief updating," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp1703, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
  8. Coutts, Alexander, 2015. "Testing Models of Belief Bias: An Experiment," MPRA Paper 67507, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Articles

  1. Coutts, Alexander, 2024. "The age of consequences: Unraveling conflict's impact on social preferences, norm enforcement, and risk-taking," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 48-67.
  2. Alexander Coutts & Leonie Gerhards & Zahra Murad, 2024. "What to Blame? Self-Serving Attribution Bias with Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(661), pages 1835-1874.
  3. Armand, Alex & Coutts, Alexander & Vicente, Pedro C. & Vilela, Inês, 2023. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
  4. Coutts, Alexander, 2022. "Identifying communication spillovers in lab-in-the-field experiments," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
  5. Alex Armand & Alexander Coutts & Pedro C. Vicente & Inês Vilela, 2020. "Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(11), pages 3431-3453, November.
  6. Alexander Coutts, 2019. "Good news and bad news are still news: experimental evidence on belief updating," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 22(2), pages 369-395, June.
  7. Coutts, Alexander, 2019. "Testing models of belief bias: An experiment," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 549-565.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Armand, Alex & Coutts, Alexander & Vicente, Pedro & Vilela, Dr. Ines, 2021. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games," CEPR Discussion Papers 16596, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Van Ha, Le, 2024. "Unveiling a novel approach to corruption measurement: Leveraging household survey data on income and expenditure through forensic analysis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 136(C).
    2. Pérez-Oviedo, Wilson & Cajas-Guijarro, John & Pinzón-Venegas, Kathia, 2024. "Corruption, unemployment, and clientelism: A Political Economy approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 135(C).
    3. Yuliet Verbel, 2024. "Easier Together: Shared Responsibility and Corruption," Discussion Papers 2024-03, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.
    4. Boutin, Delphine & Jouvin, Marine & Olié, Louis, 2024. "Assessing Dishonesty in Cocoa Value Chains: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire," IZA Discussion Papers 17078, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

  2. Alex Armand & Alexander Coutts & Pedro C. Vicente & Ines Vilela, 2019. "Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique," IFS Working Papers W19/01, Institute for Fiscal Studies.

    Cited by:

    1. Nicolas Berman & Mathieu Couttenier & Victoire Girard, 2022. "Mineral resources and the salience of ethnic identities," Working Papers hal-03920798, HAL.
    2. Alex Armand & Alexander Coutts & Pedro C. Vicente & Ines Vilela, 2021. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2112, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    3. Christa Brunnschweiler & Ishmael Edjekumhene & Paivi Lujala & Sabrina Scherzer, 2022. "You need to have this information: Using videos to increase demand for accountability on public revenue management," University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series 2022-10, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    4. Premand,Patrick & Rohner,Dominic Patrick, 2023. "Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10293, The World Bank.
    5. Michael Callen & Jonathan L. Weigel & Noam Yuchtman, 2023. "Experiments about Institutions," NBER Working Papers 31964, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Sirin, Selahattin Murat & Camadan, Ercument & Erten, Ibrahim Etem & Zhang, Alex Hongliang, 2023. "Market failure or politics? Understanding the motives behind regulatory actions to address surging electricity prices," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
    7. Claudia Custodio & Bernardo Mendes & Diogo Mendes, 2021. "Firm responses to violent conflicts," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2106, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    8. Grácio, Matilde & Vicente, Pedro C., 2021. "Information, get-out-the-vote messages, and peer influence: Causal effects on political behavior in Mozambique," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    9. Marco Alfano & Joseph-Simon Görlach, 2023. "Terrorism, Media Coverage, and Education: Evidence from al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 21(2), pages 727-763.
    10. Cappelen, Alexander W. & Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge & Mmari, Donald & Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem & Tungodden, Bertil, 2021. "Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 129-157.
    11. Shuguang Jiang & Marie Claire Villeval, 2022. "Dishonesty in Developing Countries -What Can We Learn From Experiments?," Working Papers hal-03899654, HAL.
    12. Raveh, Ohad & Perez-Sebastian, Fidel & van der Ploeg, Frederick, 2024. "Are Technology Improvements Contractionary? The Role of Natural Resources," MPRA Paper 120355, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Vicente, Pedro C. & Vilela, Inês, 2022. "Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 474-485.
    14. Raveh, Ohad & Tsur, Yacov, 2023. "Can resource windfalls reduce corruption? The role of term limits," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 122(C).
    15. Massimo Morelli & Dominic Rohner, 2023. "Natural resources and conflict: The crucial role of power mismatch and geographic asymmetries," Working Papers 698, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
    16. Pedro C. Vicente & Ines Vilela, 2020. "Preventing violent Islamic radicalization: experimental evidence on anti-social behavior," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2008, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    17. Alex Armand & Mattia Fracchia & Pedro C. Vicente, 2024. "Let's call! Using the phone to increase vaccine acceptance," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(1), pages 82-106, January.
    18. Islam,Asif Mohammed & Lederman,Daniel, 2020. "Data Transparency and Long-Run Growth," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9493, The World Bank.
    19. Alex Armand & Mattia Fracchia & Pedro C. Vicente, 2021. "Let’s call! Using the phone to increase acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2113, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    20. Davide Cantoni & Andrew Kao & David Y. Yang & Noam Yuchtman, 2024. "Protests," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 16(1), pages 519-543, August.
    21. Harris, J. Andrew & van der Windt, Peter, 2023. "Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
    22. Victoire Girard & Nicolas Berman & Mathieu Couttenier, 2020. "Natural resources and the salience of ethnic identities," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2007, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    23. Paul Fenton Villar, 2022. "Is there a Mineral-Induced ‘Economic Euphoria’?: Evidence from Latin America," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 1403-1430, April.
    24. Katovich, Erik S., 2024. "Winning and losing the resource lottery: Governance after uncertain oil discoveries," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
    25. Andersen, Jørgen Juel & Sørensen, Rune Jørgen, 2022. "The zero-rent society: Evidence from hydropower and petroleum windfalls in Norwegian local governments," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 209(C).

  3. Alexander Coutts, 2017. "Good news and bad news are still news: Experimental evidence on belief updating," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp1703, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.

    Cited by:

    1. Momsen, Katharina & Ohndorf, Markus, 2020. "Information Avoidance, Selective Exposure, and Fake(?) News - A Market Experiment," VfS Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual Conference): Gender Economics 224637, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    2. Ritwik Banerjee & Nabanita Datta Gupta & Marie Claire Villeval, 2020. "Feedback spillovers across tasks, self-confidence and competitiveness," Post-Print halshs-02908182, HAL.
    3. Barron, Kai & Gravert, Christina, 2018. "Confidence and career choices: An experiment," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2018-301, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    4. Christine L. Exley & Judd B. Kessler, 2019. "Motivated Errors," NBER Working Papers 26595, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Flörchinger, Daniela & Perino, Grischa & Frondel, Manuel & Jarke-Neuert, Johannes, 2024. "The Impact of Information Provision on Revealed-Preference Support for Climate Policies," VfS Annual Conference 2024 (Berlin): Upcoming Labor Market Challenges 302395, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    6. Thomas Buser & Leonie Gerhards & Joël Weele, 2018. "Responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 165-192, April.
    7. César Mantilla & Zahra Murad, 2022. "Ego-relevance in team production," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2022-01, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
    8. Michael Thaler, 2021. "The Supply of Motivated Beliefs," Papers 2111.06062, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2023.
    9. Assenza, Tiziana, 2021. "The Ability to 'Distill the Truth'," TSE Working Papers 21-1280, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), revised Mar 2022.
    10. Michael Thaler, 2020. "Gender Differences in Motivated Reasoning," Papers 2012.01538, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2021.
    11. Dzung Bui & Lena Dräger & Bernd Hayo & Giang Nghiem, 2021. "Consumer Sentiment during the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Others' Beliefs," CESifo Working Paper Series 9010, CESifo.
    12. Vanessa Valero, 2022. "Redistribution and beliefs about the source of income inequality," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 25(3), pages 876-901, June.
    13. Daniel J. Benjamin, 2018. "Errors in Probabilistic Reasoning and Judgment Biases," NBER Working Papers 25200, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Nisvan Erkal & Lata Gangadharan & Boon Han Koh, 2018. "By chance or by choice? Biased attribution of others’ outcomes," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 2040, The University of Melbourne.
    15. Owen, Stephanie, 2023. "College major choice and beliefs about relative performance: An experimental intervention to understand gender gaps in STEM," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    16. Hajdu, Gergely & Frollová, Nikola, 2024. "Overconfidence Due to a Self-reliance Dilemma," Department of Economics Working Paper Series 363, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    17. Markus M. Möbius & Muriel Niederle & Paul Niehaus & Tanya S. Rosenblat, 2022. "Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(11), pages 7793-7817, November.
    18. Roy-Chowdhury, V., 2022. "Self-Confidence and Motivated Memory Loss: Evidence from Schools," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2213, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    19. Nisvan Erkal & Lata Gangadharan & Boon Han Koh, 2021. "By Chance or by Choice? Biased Attribution of Others'Outcomes when Social Preferences Matter," University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series 2021-03, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    20. Katherine Coffman & Maria Paola Ugalde Araya & Basit Zafar, 2024. "A (dynamic) investigation of stereotypes, belief‐updating, and behavior," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 62(3), pages 957-983, July.
    21. Quentin Cavalan & Vincent de Gardelle & Jean-Christophe Vergnaud, 2023. "No evidence of biased updating in beliefs about absolute performance: A replication and generalization of Grossman and Owens (2012)," Post-Print hal-04197586, HAL.
    22. Christoph Drobner, 2020. "Motivated Beliefs and Anticipation of Uncertainty Resolution," Munich Papers in Political Economy 07, Munich School of Politics and Public Policy and the School of Management at the Technical University of Munich.
    23. Batmanov, Alisher & Grigoryeva, Idaliya, 2023. "Motivated Beliefs & Anticipation of Uncertainty Resolution: A Note," I4R Discussion Paper Series 65, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    24. Andrea Amelio & Florian Zimmermann, 2022. "Motivated Memory in Economics - a Review," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 213, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    25. Yonghong An & Yingyao Hu & Ruli Xiao, 2018. "Dynamic decisions under subjective expectations: a structural analysis," CeMMAP working papers CWP11/18, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    26. Momsen, Katharina & Ohndorf, Markus, 2022. "Information avoidance, selective exposure, and fake (?) news: Theory and experimental evidence on green consumption," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    27. Frohnweiler, Sarah & Beber, Bernd & Ebert, Cara, 2022. "Information frictions, belief updating and internal migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda," Ruhr Economic Papers 987, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    28. Juan Dubra & Jean-Pierre Benoit & Giorgia Romagnoli, 2020. "Belief Elicitation When More Than Money Matters:Controlling for "Control"," Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers 2001, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo..
    29. Trautmann, Stefan T. & Vollmann, Martin & Becker, Christoph, 2024. "Performance prediction and performance-based task allocation," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 220(C), pages 354-368.
    30. Duarte Gonc{c}alves & Jonathan Libgober & Jack Willis, 2021. "Retractions: Updating from Complex Information," Papers 2106.11433, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2024.
    31. Charlotte Cordes & Jana Friedrichsen & Simeon Schudy, 2024. "Motivated Procrastination," CESifo Working Paper Series 11072, CESifo.
    32. Uri Gneezy & Moshe Hoffman & Mark A. Lane & John List & Jeffrey Livingston & Michael J. Seiler, 2022. "Can Wishful Thinking Explain Evidence for Overconfidence? An Experiment on Belief Updating," Artefactual Field Experiments 00753, The Field Experiments Website.
    33. Peter Schwardmann & Joël van der Weele, 2016. "Deception and Self-Deception," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 16-012/I, Tinbergen Institute.
    34. Cacault, Maria Paula & Grieder, Manuel, 2019. "How group identification distorts beliefs," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 63-76.
    35. Dickinson, David L., 2024. "Deliberation, mood response, and the confirmation bias in the religious belief domain," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    36. Pleshcheva, Vlada & Klapper, Daniel & Dannewald, Till, 2019. "On Factors of Consumer Heterogeneity in (Mis)Valuation of Future Energy Costs: Evidence for the German Automobile Market," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 140, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    37. Frohnweiler, Sarah & Beber, Bernd & Ebert, Cara, 2023. "Information Frictions, Belief Updating and Internal Migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda," VfS Annual Conference 2023 (Regensburg): Growth and the "sociale Frage" 277583, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    38. Ro’i Zultan & Aniol Llorente-Saguer & Santiago Oliveros, 2024. "Beyond Value: on the Role of Symmetryin Demand for Information," Working Papers 2411, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
    39. Anton Suvorov & Jeroen van de Ven & Marie Claire Villeval, 2024. "Selective Information Sharing and Group Delusion," Working Papers 2405, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon.
    40. Johannes Maier & Clemens König, 2016. "A Model of Reference-Dependent Belief Updating," CESifo Working Paper Series 6156, CESifo.
    41. Frohnweiler, Sarah & Beber, Bernd & Ebert, Cara, 2022. "Information Frictions, Belief Updating and Internal Migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda," IZA Discussion Papers 15826, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    42. Thomas Buser & Leonie Gerhards & Joël J. van der Weele, 2016. "Measuring Responsiveness to Feedback as a Personal Trait," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 16-043/I, Tinbergen Institute.
    43. Matthew Olckers & Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2020. "Gamblers Learn from Experience," SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series 2020-07, Monash University, SoDa Laboratories.
    44. Avdeenko, Alexandra & Bohne, Albrecht & Frölich, Markus, 2019. "Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia," ZEW Discussion Papers 19-051, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    45. Cavalan, Quentin & de Gardelle, Vincent & Vergnaud, Jean-Christophe, 2022. "I did most of the work! Three sources of bias in bargaining with joint production," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    46. Barron, Kai, 2019. "Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2016-309r, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, revised 2019.
    47. Nisvan Erkal & Lata Gangadharan & Boon Han Koh, 2023. "Discrimination in Evaluation Criteria: The Role of Beliefs versus Outcomes," Discussion Papers 2316, University of Exeter, Department of Economics.
    48. Kirchler, Benjamin & Kirchler, Erich, 2024. "Social Reference Points Shape Decisions under Uncertainty," MPRA Paper 121054, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 11 Mar 2024.
    49. Frick, Mira & , & Ishii, Yuhta, 2021. "Welfare Comparisons for Biased Learning," CEPR Discussion Papers 16833, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    50. Le Yaouanq, Yves & Schwardmann, Peter, 2019. "Learning About One\'s Self," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 139, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    51. Zahra Murad & Chris Starmer, 2020. "Confidence Snowballing and Relative Performance Feedback," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2020-08, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
    52. Thomas J. Miceli & Kathleen Segerson & Dietrich Earnhart, 2022. "The role of experience in deterring crime: A theory of specific versus general deterrence," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 60(4), pages 1833-1853, October.
    53. Coutts, Alexander, 2015. "Testing Models of Belief Bias: An Experiment," MPRA Paper 67507, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    54. Samir Huseynov, 2023. "ChatGPT and the Labor Market: Unraveling the Effect of AI Discussions on Students' Earnings Expectations," Papers 2305.11900, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2023.
    55. Petrishcheva, Vasilisa, 2023. "Willful Ignorance and Reference Dependence of Self-Image Concerns," VfS Annual Conference 2023 (Regensburg): Growth and the "sociale Frage" 277591, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    56. Michal Soltes, 2022. "Consequences of Inconvenient Information: Evidence from Sentencing Disparities," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp718, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    57. Erkal, Nisvan & Gangadharan, Lata & Koh, Boon Han, 2023. "Do women receive less blame than men? Attribution of outcomes in a prosocial setting," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 210(C), pages 441-452.
    58. Katharina Momsen & Markus Ohndorf, 2019. "Information Avoidance, Selective Exposure, and Fake(?) News-A Green Market Experiment," Working Papers 2019-18, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
    59. Jones, Sam & Santos, Ricardo, 2022. "Can information correct optimistic wage expectations? Evidence from Mozambican job-seekers," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    60. Sebastian Fehrler & Baiba Renerte & Irenaeus Wolff, 2020. "Beliefs about Others: A Striking Example of Information Neglect," TWI Research Paper Series 118, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut, Universität Konstanz.
    61. Michael Thaler, 2020. "The Fake News Effect: Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News," Papers 2012.01663, arXiv.org, revised May 2022.
    62. Christine L. Exley & Judd B. Kessler, 2019. "The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion," NBER Working Papers 26345, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    63. Christine L. Exley & Judd B. Kessler, 2019. "The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion," Working Papers 2019-058, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    64. Mohammed Abdellaoui & Han Bleichrodt & Cédric Gutierrez, 2023. "Unpacking Overconfident Behavior When Betting on Oneself," Post-Print hal-04383402, HAL.
    65. David Boto-Garcìa & Alessandro Bucciol & Luca Zarri, 2020. "Managerial Beliefs and Firm Performance: Field Evidence from Professional Elite Soccer," Working Papers 19/2020, University of Verona, Department of Economics.
    66. Burro, Giovanni & Castagnetti, Alessandro, 2024. "The ego is no fool: Absence of motivated belief formation in strategic interactions," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    67. Shimon Kogan & Florian H. Schneider & Roberto A. Weber, 2021. "Self-Serving Biases in Beliefs about Collective Outcomes," CESifo Working Paper Series 8975, CESifo.
    68. James R. Bland & Yaroslav Rosokha, 2021. "Learning under uncertainty with multiple priors: experimental investigation," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 62(2), pages 157-176, April.
    69. Nisvan Erkal & Lata Gangadharan & Boon Han Koh, 2021. "Gender Biases in Performance Evaluation: The Role of Beliefs Versus Outcomes," University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series 2021-09, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
    70. Ryan Oprea & Sevgi Yuksel, 2022. "Social Exchange of Motivated Beliefs," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 20(2), pages 667-699.
    71. Francis de Véricourt & Huseyin Gurkan, 2022. "Is your machine better than you? You may never know," ESMT Research Working Papers ESMT-22-02, ESMT European School of Management and Technology.
    72. Castagnetti, Alessandro & Schmacker, Renke, 2022. "Protecting the ego: Motivated information selection and updating," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    73. Joyce Guo & María P. Recalde, 2023. "Overriding in Teams: The Role of Beliefs, Social Image, and Gender," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(4), pages 2239-2262, April.
    74. Bui, Dzung & Dräger, Lena & Hayo, Bernd & Nghiem, Giang, 2023. "Macroeconomic expectations and consumer sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of others’ beliefs," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    75. Gergely Hajdu & Balázs Krusper, 2023. "Choice-induced Sticky Learning," Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp349, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.
    76. Chen, Jaden Yang, 2022. "Biased learning under ambiguous information," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
    77. Heger, Stephanie A. & Papageorge, Nicholas W., 2018. "We should totally open a restaurant: How optimism and overconfidence affect beliefs," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 177-190.
    78. Alexander Coutts & Leonie Gerhards & Zahra Murad, 2024. "What to Blame? Self-Serving Attribution Bias with Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(661), pages 1835-1874.

  4. Coutts, Alexander, 2015. "Testing Models of Belief Bias: An Experiment," MPRA Paper 67507, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus & Wenzel, Tobias, 2017. "Focusing and framing of risky alternatives," DICE Discussion Papers 279, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
    2. Luc Bridet & Peter Schwardmann, 2020. "Selling Dreams: Endogenous Optimism in Lending Markets," CESifo Working Paper Series 8271, CESifo.
    3. Peter Schwardmann & Joël van der Weele, 2016. "Deception and Self-Deception," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 16-012/I, Tinbergen Institute.
    4. Schwardmann, Peter, 2019. "Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 78-92.
    5. Alexander Coutts, 2019. "Good news and bad news are still news: experimental evidence on belief updating," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 22(2), pages 369-395, June.
    6. Barron, Kai, 2019. "Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Economics of Change SP II 2016-309r, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, revised 2019.
    7. Jan B. Engelmann & Maël Lebreton & Nahuel A. Salem-Garcia & Peter Schwardmann & Joël J. van der Weele, 2024. "Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 114(4), pages 926-960, April.
    8. Etse Nkukpornu & Prince Gyimah & Linda Sakyiwaa, 2020. "Behavioural Finance and Investment Decisions: Does Behavioral Bias Matter?," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(11), pages 1-65, November.
    9. Huseynov, Samir & Palma, Marco A. & Ahmad, Ghufran, 2021. "Does the magnitude of relative calorie distance affect food consumption?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 188(C), pages 530-551.
    10. Valeria Burdea & Jonathan Woon, 2021. "Online Belief Elicitation Methods," CESifo Working Paper Series 8823, CESifo.
    11. Ahrash Dianat & Christoph Siemroth, 2021. "Improving decisions with market information: an experiment on corporate prediction markets," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 24(1), pages 143-176, March.
    12. Heger, Stephanie A. & Papageorge, Nicholas W., 2018. "We should totally open a restaurant: How optimism and overconfidence affect beliefs," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 177-190.

Articles

  1. Armand, Alex & Coutts, Alexander & Vicente, Pedro C. & Vilela, Inês, 2023. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Alex Armand & Alexander Coutts & Pedro C. Vicente & Inês Vilela, 2020. "Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(11), pages 3431-3453, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Alexander Coutts, 2019. "Good news and bad news are still news: experimental evidence on belief updating," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 22(2), pages 369-395, June.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. Coutts, Alexander, 2019. "Testing models of belief bias: An experiment," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 549-565.
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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 9 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (8) 2015-11-15 2017-12-11 2019-01-21 2019-01-28 2019-02-18 2019-05-13 2021-10-04 2024-02-19. Author is listed
  2. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (3) 2019-01-21 2019-01-28 2019-02-18. Author is listed
  3. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (2) 2019-01-21 2019-01-28
  4. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (2) 2021-10-04 2023-02-20
  5. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (2) 2015-11-15 2024-02-19
  6. NEP-AFR: Africa (1) 2023-02-20
  7. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (1) 2015-11-15
  8. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (1) 2021-10-04
  9. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2019-02-18
  10. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2024-02-19
  11. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2021-10-04
  12. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2023-02-20
  13. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2024-02-19
  14. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2024-02-19
  15. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2023-02-20
  16. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (1) 2015-11-15
  17. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (1) 2019-01-21

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