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-patterns of reserve price formation. We find that chosen reserve prices exhibit both, very sophisticated and 'irrational' behavior … (2008) and are adjusted remarkably nuanced to the resulting sales price pattern. Moreover, reserve prices are too clustered … entitlement effects and the sunk cost fallacy as there is a huge positive effect on the reserve price when the player has been …
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Riordan and Sappington (JET, 1988) show that in an agency relationship in which the agent's type is correlated with a public ex post signal, the principal may attain first best (full surplus extraction and efficient output levels) if the agent is faced with a lottery such that each type is...
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We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of profound uncertainty about the benefits of public goods, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private...
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A nudge is a non-coercive paternalistic intervention that attempts to improve choices by manipulating the framing of a decision problem. As any paternalism, it faces the difficulty of determining the appropriate welfare criterion. We propose a welfare-theoretic foundation for nudging similar in...
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Information about the future may be instrumentally useful, yet scary. For example, many patients shy away from precise genetic tests about their dispositions for severe diseases. They are afraid that a bad test result could render them desperate due to anticipatory feelings. We show that...
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overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low-price … environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local … (physical) retailers is low, price tends to be salient also in the local store, which is unfavorable for the high …
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In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on … competitive market characterised by uncertainty about the commodity price, if firms can respond to the revelation of demand …
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This paper performs a welfare analysis of economies with private information when public information is endogenously generated and agents can condition on noisy public statistics in the rational expectations tradition. We find that equilibrium is not (restricted) efficient even when feasible...
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stipulate a price level on the political information market that a politician must reach to have the right to stand for …
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that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders … different distributions. Furthermore, we also analyze second-price all-pay auction. Finally, we show that individual minimum … bids could improve the relative revenue performance of first-price all-pay compared to first-price winner-pay auction …
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