Conflict of Interests and Strategic Ignorance: the Case of Medical Students in Russia

Student: Adaeva Kseniia

Faculty: St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Educational Programme: Applied Economics and Mathematical Methods (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

We study doctors' behavior in case of a possible conflict of interests. We conduct the Dana, Weber, and Kuang's (2007) hidden information treatment with a medical framing and repetitions. We compare the behavior of medical subjects and non-medical subjects and test how thier behavior changes over time. We did not find a significant difference in the behavior of the medical subjects and non-medical subjects. Also, we did not find significant changes in their behavior over time. We found a considerable proportions of medical and non-medical subjects with suboptimal behavior.

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