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Competition in search markets with naive consumers
Gamp, Tobias; Krähmer, Daniel - 2022
We study the interplay between quality provision and consumer search in a search market where firms may design products of inferior quality to promote them to naive consumers who fail to fully understand product characteristics. We derive an equilibrium in which both superior and inferior...
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Biased beliefs in search markets
Gamp, Tobias; Krähmer, Daniel - 2022
We study the implications of biased consumer beliefs for search market outcomes in the seminal framework due to Diamond (1971). Biased consumers base their search strategy on a belief function which specifies for any (true) distribution of utility offers in the market a possibly incorrect...
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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership
Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022
retention probability. Thus, when deciding how centralized recruiting should be, leaders face a trade-off: while delegating …
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on … opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs and unequal access does not affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033428
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …
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Collusion and delegation under information control
Asseyer, Andreas - 2020
This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in … productive agent's private information and the supervisor and agent may collude. I show that the principal optimally delegates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160310
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Obstacles to efficient allocations of public education spending : evidence from a representative survey experiment
Werner, Katharina - 2018
levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …
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