Showing 1 - 10 of 37
oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers … types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto-inefficiency of the price …/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with higher prices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255624
Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257359
performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that out-of-equilibrium price uncertainty affects the …-compensated price-mechanism'. We also find that the downward pressure on wages is exacerbated by an over-supply of labor by consumers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255463
maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255473
-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …-69, as: 'Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-Take Experiment'. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255559
riding. In this paper we report an attempt to reproduce the findings of Mas and Moretti in a lab experiment. Lab experiments … colleagues whom they observe. Although the subjects in our experiment are aware of the productivity of others and although there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255595
risky choices is explored in an experiment in which participants make a series of choices between lotteries with only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255676
verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255690
contextual clues, can lead to strange behavior. In a contextless second price auction for a meaningless good, a majority of … what they think they are tasked with in the experiment. Adding a second auction that has a context drastically reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255705
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255774