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Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin - 2017

information aggregation. Despite this, unanimity is frequently used in committees making decisions on behalf of society. This …

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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research

Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019

in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Over-caution of large committees of experts

Midjord, Rune; Rodríguez Barraquer, Tomás; Valasek, Justin - 2013

We provide an explanation for why committees may behave over-cautiously. A committee of experts makes a decision on a … aggregation fails in large committees: under any majority rule, the committee rejects the innovation almost surely. …

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Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. They combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of...

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The E-word on the public acceptance of experiments

Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence but people's scepticism towards … experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a … "experiments" has a precisely estimated overall zero effect on public support. Our results indicate political leeway for …

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Career concerns as public good : the role of signaling for open source software development

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...

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Take-up of joint and individual liability loans: an analysis with laboratory experiments

Baulia, Susmita - 2017

This paper reports a study on decision-making by borrowers regarding take-up of different loan types in a laboratory microfinance experiment setting. I hypothesize that when borrowers are offered a flexible choice of different loan types (here, individual liability (IL) and joint liability...

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Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods : an experimental study

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2015 - September 2013, revised March 2015

We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for expe-rience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...

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Malleability of preferences for honesty

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...

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