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Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...
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. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the …
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Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …
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