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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428834
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Do judges hate speculators?
Hornuf, Lars; Klöhn, Lars - 2018 - This version: November 18, 2018
that judges would have an anti-speculator bias. However, in an actual behavioral study, 185 judges did not exhibit such … bias. In another sample of 170 professional lawyers, we found weak support for an anti-speculator bias. This evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936293
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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rouwendal, Jan - 2002
The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediatesteps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producinga consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effectscorrectly under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324940
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects : a plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
based on proper science. The present paper explores sources of bias in the methods used to evaluate environmental policy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997569
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Clustering standard errors at the "session" level
Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2020
Session-specific features of a laboratory experiment, if those exist, do not disappear by clustering standard errors at … typical controlled laboratory experiment where subjects make choices in the same environment repeatedly, clustering at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234515
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Lab in the field : measuring preferences in the wild
Genîzî, Ûrî; Imas, Alex - 2016
experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489364
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Statistical power of within and between-subjects designs in economic experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Bissonette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - 2014
usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires … used in the literature. Our results suggest that adding experimental periods in an experiment can substantially increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428809
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Testing the waters : behavior across participant pools
Snowberg, Erik; Yariv, Leeat - 2018
external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in … participants differ from non-lab participants. Using an additional set of lab experiments, we see no evidence of observer effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872935
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Biased beliefs about immigration and economic concerns : evidence from representative experiments
Dylong, Patrick; Übelmesser, Silke - 2022
representative survey experiments with more than 8000 respondents, we first document substantial biases in respondents' beliefs about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362426
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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2000
We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...
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