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This paper revisits the relationship between transparency on the consumer side and product variety as analyzed in Schultz (2009). We identify two welfare effects of transparency. More transparency decreases price-cost margins which is beneficial forwelfare. On the other hand, more transparency...
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In 2013, Stiftung Warentest tested hazelnut chocolate for their leading magazine, called Test. Stiftung Warentest is one of the most important consumer organizations in Germany. Ritter Sport is a high-quality producer of chocolate in Germany. Their hazelnut chocolate did not pass the test. It...
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providing information about the actual extent of inequalities has a nuanced impact on the support for equity-enhancing policy …
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that most of the information in the report cards does not reliably measure quality of care, but a subset of seven measures … does. Using a sample of more than 3,000 nursing homes with information on two waves, we find a significant improvement in …
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's use of mass communication media to obtain information about the ECB. We employ a unique representative public opinion … of knowing about monetary policy, but to take the gender-specific differences into account in doing so. …
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the true state (of the world) of given cases. The investigation of assessment criteria improves the initial information … updated, allowing for a sorting of particular cases into ever smaller subclasses. However, receiving such information causes …
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We analyze dictator allocation decisions in an experiment where the recipients have to earn the pot to be divided with a real-effort task. As the recipients move before the dictators, their effort decisions resemble the first move in a trust game. Depending on the recipients' performance, the...
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We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
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Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can … whether this form of segregation is due to gender differences in the willingness to volunteer for take on positions of power … segregation in coercive roles is due to conformity with pre-assigned gender roles in both cultures. We find that women in the …
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The role of gender in the labour force and potential inequalities between men and women have been widely discussed …. Despite efforts to align gender roles in recent decades, high levels of inequality are not an exception but rather the … proposed framework, the Gender Equality Firm Index (GEFI), allows for quantitative gender equality analysis at the company …
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