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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?
Sgroi, Daniel - 2012
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...
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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an ‘expert leader' model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and industry experience. After controlling for...
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A Theory of Expert Leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2012
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...
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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 …
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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 …
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion : Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2015
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts – independently of...
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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 …
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Strategic Behavior Across Gender : A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
Gerdes, Christer - 2010
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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