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Evidence from hypothetical scenarios strongly suggests the existence of a sunk cost bias, the tendency to ‘throw good money after bad money.’ However, the few studies using incentives are inconclusive. In addition, evidence on potential psychological channels underlying such a bias is...
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Empirical search cost estimates tend to increase in the size of the transaction, even if search can be done conveniently online. To assess this pattern systematically, we conduct an online search experiment in which we manipulate the price scale while keeping the physical search effort for each...
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For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way: attention is either confined to a simple 2-region or to an equidistant multi-region world. As a result, the main predictions regarding the impact of e.g. diminishing trade costs are...
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-entry dynamics of quantities, but no post-entry dynamics of markups. This suggests that shifts in demand play an important role in … successful entry, but that firms do not use dynamic manipulation of markups as an instrument to shift demand. We structurally … advertising to acquire new customers and thereby shift demand and increase sales. In the second, they use temporarily low markups …
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In many markets supply contracts include a series of small, regular payments made by consumers and a single, large bonus that consumers receive at some point during the contractual period. But, if for instance its production costs exceed its value to consumers, such a bonus creates...
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framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …. This in turn allows us to measure how changes in TFP-Q, demand and markups ultimately affected revenue TFP, as well as …-recession is due to both a weakening of demand and a decreasing TFP-Q pushing down sales, markups, revenue TFP and labour …
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Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics … newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when …-checking reduces demand among respondents with strong ideological views and increases demand among ideologically moderate respondents …
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How does a citizen's decision to participate in political activism depend on the participation of others? We conduct a nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a seemingly unrelated survey, we randomly provide...
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Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from...
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estimate that taxes are paid on no more than 24 percent of Airbnb transactions prior to enforcement. We also find that demand …
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