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Term
Papers for Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Potential
Term Paper Topics
Bank
Runs (decision making under uncertainty and strategic interaction)
Leverage
in Asset Markets
Herding
Signalling
Mating
and Loss Aversion
Past Term Papers
2011
Monetary
Assessment and Predicted Utility: Dissociation Across Two Goods --
Senthuran Raveendranathan and Tristan Taru
(Third Place, Minnesota Economic Association Undergraduate Student
Paper Contest)
The Effect of
Hunger as a Motivational State on Temporal Discounting -- Dianna Amasino
and Wanyi Li
Gender Differences
in Mate Selection -- Wenying Huang and Nina Wellander
The Effects of Mating and the Competitive Mindset in Risk Taking --
Dharshana Tennekoon and Guillermo Medina
The Effect of Time on Productivity: The Candle Problem -- Majd Khbour
and Will Chilton
The Effect of Hunger on Impulsive Behavior and Cognitve Reflection
-- Erik Johnson and Elexander Horn
How do Social Conformity and Anonymity Affect Other-Regarding Behavior?
-- Terence Steinberg and Joseph Schubert
Quasi-Endowment in English and Dutch Auctions -- Gerbrand Hoogvliet
and Giorgi Inashvili
Cognitive Reflection and Uncertainty Aversion: Evidence from Experimental
Economics -- Shruti Dhanda and Mame Diarra Gueye
Does teh Presence of an Attractive Female Affect Physical Risk-Taking
Behavior in Undergraduate Males? -- Kyle Hamblett and Zeid Habayeb
What is the Impact of Emotions on the Endowment Effect? -- Feifei
Zuo and Jimerson J. Asencio Ferrufino
Intra-Culturual Altruism and Bargaining Behavior: A Cross-Group Analysis
of Sub-Cultures within Macalester College -- Claire Eder and Emily
Johnson
Market Anomalies in a Takeover Game: The Effect of Uncertainty and
Priming -- Justin Buensuceso and Mohamed Ali
Does Trust Exist in a Strategic Setting? -- Eli Crane and Stephen
Davis
2010
Generosity and the Social Environment: Testing
the Effects of Physcial Anonymity Using Dictator Games -- Nguyen Le
and Jarrad Fjelstad
Variations in the Dictator Game: Anonymity and the Endowment Effect
-- Haider Ali Malik and Horatiu Kraus
The Smart and the Risky: Cognitive Aptitude, Risk and Loss Aversion
-- Miles Harlow
Cognitive Reflection and Risk Aversion: An Analysis of Gender, Age
and Major -- Emily Hamilton and Jake Cormak
Information Cascades: How Significant is teh Effect of the Fashion
Leader? -- Besjona Kreka and Maliq Muro
Information and Diverse Environments of Players in Repeated Beauty
Contests -- Sougrynomna Sore
Do Risk Attitudes Affect Students' Choices of Major in a Liberal Arts
Setting? -- Ji Young Choi and Atang Gilka
The Paradox of Choice: Are We Better Off with More Choice? -- Manasi
Kapoor and Stephen Snider
Drivers of Time Inconsistency and Their Relative Impact, -- Alvaro
Ballarin-Cabrera and Simeng Han
Bubbles in Limit Order Asset Markets -- Joshua Wesley Paulson and
Mark Bracey Sherman
Power of Asking Questions: Implications for Fighting Obesity -- Chelsea
Park and Christina Park
Examining the Behavioral Effects of Big Wins and Big Losses in Texas
Hold'em Poker -- Katie Mertz and Daniel Esrig
Altruism and Group Membership: The Dictator and Ultimatum Games --
Danielle Johnson and Mitch Stepleton
Anomalous Behavior in the Traveler's Dilemma: How do Players Diverge
from Classical Game Theory Predictiions? -- Saad Anjum and Burcu Sahin
Conformity Incentives and Overconfidence: Evidence from Experimental
Economics -- Stamo Hadjiyski and Aleksander Azarnov
2009
Anonymity and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from a Public Good
Game -- Dakota Ryan (Second Place, Minnesota Economic Association
Undergraduate Student Paper Contest)
Fariness in the Ultimatum Game: A Test on Children Attending Catholic
School -- Cyrus Butler and Lisa Giddings
Refusing 'Free' Money: Signaling and the Social Cost of Receiving
Help -- Sebastian Andre Wellsjo and Benjamin Torres Galick
Preventing Lemon Market Behavior Through the Implementation of a Seller
Reputation System -- Andrew Craig
The Intensity of Regret through a Sequential Search Game -- Jeremy
Glover and Daniel Portilla
Does Greater Information Spread Increase the Winner's Curse in a Common
Value Auction? -- Brad Johnson
Country of Origin and the Demand for Video Games -- Milton Koch and
Keaton White
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