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) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The mean and the variance of …
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informational efficiency of the price system. We show that, when agents have private information about monetary shocks, the cost can …
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response to earn cigarette puffs. Changing the number of responses required per puff is conceptualized as a price manipulation …. Our experiments show that these price increases decrease cigarette consumption and that price elasticity of demand … increases with increases in price. When from 74 different smokers, participating in 17 different experiments, in our laboratory …
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ethanol exposure via a variant of the Samson ethanol fading technique) respond to changes in the price of ethanol. For both … of ethanol exposure did not interfere with rats' ability to behave according to economic theory. In the first experiment …, rats responded only moderately to a 100% price increase (especially when compared to the response for the non …
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qualities, but because of them. There is also evidence that genuine medical advances, such as the rise of the germ theory of …
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This paper uses laboratory experiments to directly test a central prediction of disclosure theory: that strategic …
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We study the impact of regulating product entry and quality information requirements on an oligopoly equilibrium and consumer welfare. Requiring product testing can reduce consumer uncertainty, but it also increases fixed costs of entry and time to market. Using variation between EU and US...
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Solar technologies have been associated with private and social returns, but their technological potential often remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal, we assess the potential of three types of quality...
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Although fake online customer reviews have become prevalent on platforms such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook, little is known about how these reviews influence consumer behavior. This paper provides the first experimental estimates of the effects of fake reviews on individual demand and...
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We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities...
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