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Firm responses to high-speed internet
Steimer, Henrike - 2020
Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established … firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access … to the first generation of broadband internet and later speed upgrades by exploiting technological peculiarities of the …
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Games played through agents in the laboratory : a test of Prat & Rustichini's model
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes - 2016
From the regulation of sports to lawmaking in parliament, in many situations one group of people ("agents") makes decisions that affect payoffs of others ("principals") who are inactive. As the principals have a stake in the agents' decisions they face an incentive to offer payments in order to...
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Imitation under stress
Buckert, Magdalena; Oechssler, Joerg; Schwieren, Christiane - 2014
relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457243
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Do intensive guidance programs reduce social inequality in the transition to higher education in Germany? : experimental evidence from the ZuBAb study 0.5 years after high school g...
Erdmann, Melinda; Pietrzyk, Irena Magdalena; Helbig, Marcel - 2022
This paper examines the effect of an intensive counseling program to promote university access among students who are eligible for university. Using data from the experimental panel study ZuBAb, we examine the average effect on university enrollment directly after high school graduation and the...
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Signaling motives in lying games
Fries, Tilman - 2021
second half of the paper tests the theoretical predictions in an experiment. In contrast to previous literature, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500269
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Teams and individuals in standard auction formats : decisions and emotions
Karmeliuk, Maria; Kocher, Martin - 2021
-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500699
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How do sellers benefit from buy-it-now prices in Ebay auctions? : an experimental investigation
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2018
In Buy-It-Now (BIN, hereafter) auctions, sellers can make a "take-it-or-leave-it" price offer (BIN price) prior to an auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that...
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Covid-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020 - This version: June 2020, revised version
Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020 - 2nd revision June 2020
stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence on two important choices made by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238957
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Coordination under loss contracts
Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2020
In this paper we study the effects that loss contracts - prepayments that can be clawbacked later - have on group coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In control sessions, incentives are formulated as a...
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