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absent in these markets. We introduce a dataset of 414 SME marketplace loans and 8,236 online loan days to test these …
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We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...
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examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …
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increased online-search activity. Consistently, an experiment that just encourages search-engine usage produces very similar … results. Another experiment provides no evidence of experimenter-demand effects. Overall, results suggest that incentive …
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prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …
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We report results from the first experimental study of round-robin tournaments. In our experiment, we investigate how …
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Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …
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Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences, and social norms) to investigate the universality...
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production called “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”. Despite proven results in agronomic trials, our first experiment shows …
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In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the …
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