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Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin; … - 2022

ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account …-game learning for cognitively less able participants but does not affect overbidding for the cognitively more able. Vice versa …, 'cross-game learning' may rather be understood as 'cross-game transfer', as it has the potential to benefit bidders with …

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Quitting and peer effects at work

Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort : evidence from a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment

Kim, Min-taec; Slonim, Robert - 2012

We examine the gift exchange hypothesis on both the quantity and quality of output using a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers were paid either a high or low wage. We find that although...

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility...

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"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" auctions : effects of changing bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2015

We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now"...

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Courtesy and idleness : gender differences in team work and team competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta (contributor); … - 2005

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...

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Savings and prize-linked savings accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - 2012

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine...

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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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Loss aversion and lying behavior : theory, estimation and empirical evidence

Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016

We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...

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A method to estimate mean lying rates and their full distribution

Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018

Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies to correct for sampling errors. This method estimates the full distribution of lying when agents...

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