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Musicians on Jamendo: A New Model for the Music Industry?

Bazen, Stephen; Bouvard, Laurence; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoît - HAL - 2014

Jamendo is a website for the legal, free downloading of music. This platform of "free" online music, the biggest in the … artists' point of view. Does Jamendo simply represent a great opportunity for amateurs to showcase their music and win an … audience? Or is Jamendo also capable of attracting professional artists, for whom earning an income from their music is …

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Social preferences in the online laboratory: a randomized experiment

Hergueux, Jérôme; Jacquemet, Nicolas - HAL - 2014

Internet is a very attractive technology for the implementation of experiments, both in order to obtain larger and more diverse samples and as a field of economic research in its own right. This paper reports on an experiment performed both online and in the laboratory, designed to strengthen...

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Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A field experiment in Vietnam

Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie Claire; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2012

We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...

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Experimental Economics: Contributions, Recent Developments, and New Challenges

Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2007

Although economics has long been considered as a non-experimental science, the development of experimental economics and behavioral economics is amazingly rapid and affects most fields of research. This paper first attempts at defining the main contributions of experiments to economics. It also...

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A TEST OF CHEAP TALK IN DIFFERENT HYPOTHETICAL CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF AIR POLLUTION

Ami, Dominique; Aprahamian, Frédéric; Chanel, Olivier; … - HAL - 2009

We explore the influence of a neutral cheap talk script in three typical scenarios used in the CV literature devoted to the valuation of air pollution effects. We show that cheap talk has a differentiated effect depending on the scenario implemented. It decreases protest responses with no effect...

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Willingness to Pay of Committed Citizens: A Field Experiment

Ami, Dominique; Chanel, Olivier; Aprahamian, Frédéric; … - HAL - 2008

In this paper, we propose a behavioural approach to determine the extent to which the consumer/citizen distinction affects interpretations of monetary values. We perform a field experiment dealing with air pollution, where some (randomly selected) subjects are given the opportunity to behave...

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Social preferences in the online laboratory : A randomized experiment

Hergueux, Jérôme; Jacquemet, Nicolas - HAL - 2012

Internet is a very attractive technology for experiments implementation, both in order to reach more diverse and larger samples and as a field of economic research in its own right. This paper reports on an experiment performed both online and in the laboratory, designed so as to strengthen the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635036

How to Improve Pupils' Literacy ? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a French Educational Project

Massoni, Sébastien; Vergnaud, Jean-Christophe - HAL - 2011

The Action Lecture program is an innovative teaching method run in some nursery and primary schools in Paris and designed to improve pupils' literacy. We report the results of an evaluation of this program. We describe the experimental protocol that was built to estimate the program's impact on...

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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences...

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The price of unsustainability: An experiment with professional private equity investors

Crifo, Patricia; Forget, Vanina; Teyssier, Sabrina - HAL - 2012

This paper sheds light on the impact sustainable and unsustainable corporate practices have on equity financing. We present a unique framed field experiment in which professional private equity investors competed in closed auctions to acquire fictive firms. We hence observe that corporate...

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