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Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor); … - 2006

economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …

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The impact of scoring weights on price and quality outcomes : an application to the procurement of welfare-to-work contracts

Koning, Pierre; Meerendonk, Arthur van de - 2012

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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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

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" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and … offline markets. Despite very different strategic implications for buyers and sellers, results from our experiment suggest no …

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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013

outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …

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Learning about oneself : the effects of performance feedback on school choice

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2016

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized …

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Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

Bandiera, Oriana; Parekh, Nidhi; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2021

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian hierarchical model that aggregates experimental findings over the last twenty...

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Bayesian versus heuristic-based choice under sleep restriction and suboptimal times of day

Dickinson, David L.; McElroy, Todd - 2017

This paper examines the impact of a commonly experienced adverse cognitive state on decision making under uncertainty. Specifically, we administer an at-home sleep restriction protocol combined with random assignment to the time-of-day for decision making. Thus, we induce sleepiness in our...

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Gambling habits and probability judgements in a Bayesian task environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

Little is known about how gamblers estimate probabilities from multiple information sources. This paper reports on a preregistered study that administered an incentivized Bayesian choice task to n=465 participants (self-reported gamblers and non-gamblers). Our data failed to support our main...

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Procedures for eliciting time preferences

Freeman, David; Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; … - 2016

second price auction; and the multiple price list. The payment mechanisms associated with these methods are widely considered …

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