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Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests

Mago, Shakun; Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the effect of social identification and information feedback on individual behavior in …. Identifying subjects through photo display decreases wasteful effort. Providing information feedback about others’ effort does not … improved information feedback decreases the heterogeneity of effort. …

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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods

Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...

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The impact of the irrelevant : temporary buy-options and bidding behavior in auctions

Peeters, Ronald; Strobel, Martin; Vermeulen, Dries; … - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-19

With a laboratory experiment, we study the impact of buy-options and the corresponding buy-price on revenues and bidding behavior in (online) proxy-auctions with independent private valuations. We show that temporary buy-options may reduce revenues for two reasons: At low buy-prices, the...

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Fairness and transparency in one-to-many bargaining with complementarity : an experimental study

Mak, Vincent; Zwick, Rami - In: Games 15 (2024) 4, pp. 1-29

choice of the order of bargaining. In addition, we implemented an information transparency manipulation regarding whether the …We report an experiment designed to study bargaining behavior between one buyer and multiple sellers with … complementarity and how it is influenced by fairness concern and information transparency. We base our setup on a structured …

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The impact of the irrelevant: Temporary buy-options and bidding behavior in auctions

Peeters, Ronald; Strobel, Martin; Vermeulen, Dries; … - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-19

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Experimental Comparison of Multi-Stage and One-Stage Contests

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article experimentally studies a two-stage elimination contest and compares its performance with a one-stage contest. Contrary to the theory, the two-stage contest generates higher revenue than the equivalent one-stage contest. There is significant over-dissipation in both stages of the...

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Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence

Shupp, Robert; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Many resource allocation contests have the property that individuals undertake costly actions to appropriate a potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The...

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Essays on Experimental Investigation of Lottery Contests

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize. The variety of economic situations that can be described as contests has attracted enormous attention from economic theorists. Despite the extensive theoretical research of...

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Best-of-Three Contest Experiments: Strategic versus Psychological Momentum

Mago, Shakun; Sheremeta, Roman; Yates, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We conduct an experimental analysis of a best-of-three contest. Intermediate prizes lead to higher efforts, while increasing the role of luck (as opposed to effort) leads to lower efforts. Both intermediate prizes and luck reduce the probability of contest ending in two rounds. The patterns of...

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Expenditures and Information Disclosure in Two-Stage Political Contests

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

exceed theoretical predictions. Disclosing information about the opponent’s expenditures in the first stage increases the …

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