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Many people implicitly sell or give away their data when using online services and participating in loyalty programmes-despite growing concerns about company’s use of private data. Our paper studies potential reasons and co-variates that contribute to resolving this apparent paradox, which has...
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We investigate whether tournament prizes that depend on joint output ("variable prize tournaments") can alleviate the … compare fixed-prize tournaments with tournaments where prizes depend on contestants' joint output. Our analysis suggests that … classroom experiment where we compare participants' choices in a fixed-prize treatment (FP) with those of a variable …
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and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation experiment and a … competition experiment. The two experiments use the same methods and subject pool, and examine games randomly selected from the … same distribution. The current introductory paper presents the results of the estimation experiment, and clarifies the …
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In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...
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While the ontogeny of prosociality during infancy, childhood, and adolescence has received substantial attention over the last decades, little is known about how prosocial preferences develop beyond emerging adulthood. Recent evidence suggests that the previously observed positive association...
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By way of a field experiment conducted at a university cafeteria this paper finds that placing a vegetarian option …
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In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227697
Experiments on revealed preference often use budget sets that are randomly and independently drawn according to some criteria for each participant. However, this means that the budget sets faced by different individuals are not the same. This paper proposes a method to control for these...
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both homophily and social norms in a controlled environment. At the beginning of our experiment, each player fills in a …
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prices can be measured through the context of the indirect utility function (IUF) using a lab experiment. First, the paper … experiment using a series of relevant statistical tests. This study uses the multiple price list (MPL) method, which has been one …
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