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We report three repetitions of Falk and Kosfeld's (2006) low and medium control treatmentswith 364 subjects. Each repetition employs a sample drawn from a standard subject pool ofstudents and demographics vary across samples. Our results largely conict with those of theoriginal study. We mainly...
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attempts to shed some light on the independenceof observations between experiments, if they are generated by the same subjects.[...] …
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We study interaction effects between intra-firm conflicts and interfirm competitionon a duopolistic market with seller firms employing one or more agents and imple-menting tournament incentives. We show that inter-firm competition leads to higherincentive intensity, higher efforts and output...
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We construct a simple three person trust game with one trustor and two trustees. The trustor has the possibility to either trust both trustees or none, while the trustees make their decisions either sequentially or simultaneously, depending on the treatment. When trustees play sequentially,...
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The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...
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We revisit the economic models of social learning by assuming that individuals update theirbeliefs in a non-Bayesian way. Individuals either overweigh or underweigh (in Bayesian terms)their private information relative to the public information revealed by the decisions of othersand each...
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experimental literature we …nd evidence that tippingis motivated by reciprocity, but also by reputation concerns among …
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This paper examines the occurrence and fragility of information cascades in laboratory experiments.One group of low … information.In line with existing experiments on information cascades, we find some evidence that lowinformed subjects follow the …
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