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This Paper studies the consequences of price discrimination in a market for experts’ services. In the case of experts markets, where the expert observes the intervention that a consumer needs to fix his problem and also provides a treatment, price discrimination proceeds along the dimension of...
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …
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democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate the …
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Corporate scandals are reflected in excessive top management compensation and fraudulent accounts. These scandals cause an enormous amount of damage, not only to the companies affected, but also to the market economy as a whole. As a solution, conventional wisdom suggests more monitoring and...
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yielding equilibria exhibiting various degrees of inefficiencies and fraud. The variety of results has fostered the impression …
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laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job charac- teristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package …
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This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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-play messages. In a laboratory experiment, we modify communication by making the sending of messages optional and costly. Even small …
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