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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects : A Plethora of Systematic Biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2013
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/10013094430
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Public Investment as Commitment
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2013
Should public assets such as infrastructure, education, and the environment earn the same return as private investments? We consider if time-inconsistent decision-makers can gain from institutions that enforce cost-benefit rules on large projects that influence the economy as a whole. Long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093884
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gächter, Simon - 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/10013044545
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Imminent Entry and the Transition to Multimarket Rivalry in a Laboratory Setting
Mason, Charles F. - 2016
In this paper we study the behavior of rivals when there is a known probability of imminent entry. Experimental markets are used to collect data on pre- and post-entry production when there is an announced time of possible entry; some markets experience entry and other do not. In all pre-entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993023
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The Effect of Incentives of Real Effort : Evidence from the Slider Task
de Araujo, Felipe Augusto - 2015
Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021431
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Consistency of Higher Order Risk Preferences
Deck, Cary A. - 2013
the extant laboratory experiments that measure higher order risk preferences and we find a fair amount of support for this … dichotomy. Our own experiment is the first to look beyond 4th order risk preferences and we examine risk attitudes at even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088796
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Did we Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2010
phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self …-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671736
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Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters
D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010
We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833916
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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - CESifo - 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/10010960644
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 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/10010948862