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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
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 influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …
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Speed, quality, and the optimal timing of complex decisions : field evidence
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe; Zēgners, Dainis - 2022
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real-world setting of cognitively-demanding decisions in which the timing of decisions is endogenous: professional chess. Move-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise...
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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance : A Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2018
plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930959
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals have to complete a cumbersome task of unknown length. They are exposed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487122
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The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Measuring IQ
Borghans, Lex - 2013
. We disentangle these two elements empirically using data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings is that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087402
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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay : A Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2013
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074203
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a field experiment (n>1,700 participants), we vary the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495030
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Inducing cooperation with emotion - who is affected?
Gärtner, Manja; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjäll, Daniel - 2020
on cooperative behavior. In a survey experiment with a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 1,828), we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237149
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Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions
Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin; … - 2022
Overbidding in sealed-bid second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476711
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Decision-making traits and states as determinants of risky choices
Gärtner, Manja; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjäll, Daniel - 2019
experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118611