Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105095 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5094
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We test the claim that game form misconception among subjects making choices through the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) value elicitation procedure provides an explanation for the endowment effect, as suggested by Cason and Plott (forthcoming). We employ a design that allows us to clearly identify whether subjects comprehend the incentive properties of a price-list version of the BDM procedure. We find a robust endowment effect, even among those subjects whose elicited valuations for a known monetary value and whose ability to calculate the payoffs resulting from their choices indicate no misconception of the task. We conclude that game form misconceptions alone are unlikely to account for behavioral patterns like the endowment effect.
Subjects: 
endowment effect
game form misconception
BDM mechanism
experimental methods
replicable audio files of instructions
JEL: 
C91
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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