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Do employers discriminate less if vacancies are difficult to fill? : evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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Discrimination in the general population
Angerer, Silvia; Brosch, Hanna; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2024
We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we randomly vary receivers’ migration background and other...
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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014
We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our …
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Lying in competitive environments : a clean identification of behavioral impacts
Dato, Simon; Feess, Eberhard; Nieken, Petra - 2022
competition, and/or the behavioral impacts of competition. Psychologically, a competitive environment alters incentives for ….e., succeeding in a competition is valuable per se. We design an experiment that allows us to disentangle financial and psychological …
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Market power and information revelation in dynamic trading
Gottardi, Piero; Serrano, Roberto - 2004
structure of the sellers' information and, even more importantly, on the intensity of competition allowed by the trading rules …. When there is intense competition (absence of clienteles), information is fully and immediately revealed to the buyers in … arrangements characterized by less intense forms of competition (presence of clienteles), for any n we always have equilibria where …
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Market power and welfare in asymmetric divisible good auctions
Manzano Tovar, Carolina; Vives, Xavier - 2016
We analyze a divisible good uniform-price auction that features two groups each with a finite number of identical bidders. Equilibrium is unique, and the relative market power of a group increases with the precision of its private information but declines with its transaction costs. In line with...
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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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