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The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2009
as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153013
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion : Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2015
contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021526
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian - 2010
experts make the predicted promise; (2) proper promises induce consumer-friendly behavior; and (3) higher interaction prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146471
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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
Conrads, Julian - 2011
In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers. Option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118529
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Revenge of the Experts : Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists. Building on the "impressionable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314974
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The Good, the Bad and the Naive : Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?
Dulleck, Uwe - 2012
Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce … "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three … selection and fixed effects regressions support the model's predictions and show that causality goes from good experts to fair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107208
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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard:The Peter Principle Revisited
Koch, Alexander Karl; Nafziger, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862318
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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior
Rustichini, Aldo - 2012
Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103029
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Negotiating Cooperation Under Uncertainty : Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions
Dvorak, Fabian - 2018
and forgiving. We further find clear evidence for the exchange of private information - the central role ascribed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908872
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Social Distance and Trust : Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine - 2013
exchanges with few information asymmetries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087403