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Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? Evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods

Munro, Alistair; Valente, Marieta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

an experiment to test how the presence of impure public goods affects pro-social behaviour. We set parameters, such that …

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Money Talks? An Experimental Study of Rebate in Reputation System Design

Li, Lingfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Reputation systems that rely on feedback from traders are important institutions for helping sustain trust in markets, while feedback information is usually considered a public good. We apply both theoretical models and experiments to study how raters' feedback behavior responds to different...

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Fair share and social efficiency: A mechanism in which peers decide on the payoff division

Dong, Lu; Falvey, Rod; Luckraz, Shravan - 2016

We propose and experimentally test a mechanism for a class of principal-agent problems in which agents can observe each … achieved under this simple mechanism and, in a controlled laboratory experiment, we find that players use a proportional rule …

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An experimental analysis of moral hazard in team

Costa, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

size, as in Adams (2002). Our experiment results show that for both production functions bigger groups reduce contribution …

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Discretionary enforcement and strategic interactions between firms, regulatory agency and justice department: a theoretical and empirical investigation

Germani, Anna Rita; Morone, Andrea; Morone, Piergiuseppe; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

laboratory experiment. Laboratory evidence on compliance behaviour of firms when faced with enforcement conditions predicted by …

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Risk-taking in social settings: Group and peer effects

Bougheas, Spiros; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2013

We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an incentivized investment task. We compare consultation to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a second with group choice after communication. Our benchmark...

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Risk taking in social settings: Group and peer effects

Bougheas, Spiros; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2013

We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an incentivized investment task. We compare these choices to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a second with group choice after communication. Our...

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On The Complexity of Eliminating Fuel Subsidy in Indonesia; A Behavioral Approach

Pradiptyo, Rimawan; Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

People’s attachment to a subsidy creates difficulties for the government to phase out, and eventually eliminate, the subsidy. Elimination of fuel subsidy scheme in Indonesia is a perfect example of such occurrence. The subsidy has been implementing to commodity as opposed to households, thus...

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Communication of uncertainty in weather forecasts

Marimo, Pricilla; Kaplan, Todd R; Mylne, Ken; Sharpe, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Experimental economics methods were used to assess public understanding of information in weather forecasts and test … indicates a possible learning effect as the experiment progressed. Furthermore, participants who were shown the graph with …

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A growing pain: an experimental approach to discover the most acceptable strategy for lifting fuel subsidy scheme in Indonesia

Pradiptyo, Rimawan; Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

participated in the experiment, ranging from those who do not own motor vehicle, those who have motor cycle(s) and those who have … car(s). During the experiment, subjects were given several pair-wise choices and chose the most acceptable policy from …

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