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Platform Design and Innovation Incentives : Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store

Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021

A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...

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Choice Architecture and Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions and Test Demand

Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2021

Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects of two measures to increase vaccination and testing: “choice architecture” and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of “nudging” people into a socially desired direction...

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The Effect of Public Corruption on COVID-19 Fatality Rate : A Cross-Country Examination

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....

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One Size Does Not Fit All : TFP in the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Three European Countries

Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021

We analyse the impact of both the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the European sovereign and banking crisis of 2011-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both the Eurozone crisis and countries' institutional...

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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...

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When a Nudge Backfires : Combining (Im)Plausible Deniability with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Behavioral Change

Bolton, Gary - 2020

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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Belief Elicitation : Limiting Truth Telling with Information or Incentives

Danz, David - 2020

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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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice production called “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”. Despite proven results in agronomic trials, our first experiment shows that AWD only saves water and increases profits in...

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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...

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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market

Fest, Sebastian - 2019

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...

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