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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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, they are either unable or very limited in describing labor productivity or multitasking although individuals frequently … remedy for these shortcomings by developing a dynamical model of procedurally rational decision making. The basic idea of the … model is a feedback loop between experienced utility, decision utility, and activities. In applications of the model, I show …
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-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …
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Behavioral economics has so far largely avoided discussing the psychological origins of preferences, as well as their … of needs strengthens economic models, by developing a decision-making framework for well-being assessment and choice …
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The procurement of complex projects is often plagued by large cost overruns. One important reason for these additional costs are flaws in the initial design. If the project is procured with a price-only auction, sellers who spotted some of the flaws have no incentive to reveal them early. Each...
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