TY - RPRT AU - Asano, Takao AU - Okudaira, Hiroko AU - Sasaki, Masaru TI - An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity PY - 2014/Jan/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 7933 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7933 AB - This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search behavior in a finite-horizon sequential search model. In so doing, we employ a new approach to observe the potential trend of reservation points that is usually unobserved. We observe a significant dip in a trend of reservation points when subjects are faced with ambiguity over wage distributions. KW - experiment KW - search model KW - ambiguity KW - reservation wage ER -