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People often draw inferences from sequences of past performance, sometimes perceiving patterns even in random outcomes. This has fueled debates regarding phenomena such as the hot hand and gambler’s …
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This paper examines reference-dependent stopping in repeated risky decisionmaking and its relation to skill dependence and individual ability. Using field data from online heads-up poker tournaments, …
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This paper explores the connection between jurisdictional fragmentation and sprawl. We utilize Finnish municipal mergers as a quasi-experiment which induces exogenous variation in the number of local …
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