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college students, each year freshmen apply to move in and graduating seniors leave. Each student stays on campus for a few …
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Viewing individual contributions as investments in emission reduction we rely on the familiar linear public goods- game to set global reduction targets which, if missed, imply that all payoffs are destroyed with a certain probability. Regulation by milestones does not only impose a final...
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players modify their behavior. We conducted a repeated ultimatum game experiment with random strangers, in which one treatment …
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Concessions try to avoid conflict in bargaining and can finally lead to an agreement. Although they usually are seen as unfolding in time, concessions can also be studied in normal form or by conditioning only on failure of earlier agreement attempts. We experimentally compare three protocols of...
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Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by outcomes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, where procedures are defined independently of an outcome. To that end, we design procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry the same information on...
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allowing for competition of both, buyers and sellers. Naivety of both is related to the idea that higher prices exclude worse … qualities. While competition of naive buyers increases prices, competition of naive sellers promotes effciency enhancing trade …
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We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers … offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …
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comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that …
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.e., firms competing on multiple structurally unrelated markets, can effectively limit competition. Our more general analysis … effects of forbearance and repeated interaction. Surprisingly, conglomerate firms do not limit competition, they rather foster …
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This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the waste management policies experienced during the years 1999-2008 by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a...
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