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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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framework. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic … net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …
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field experiment in the market for computer repairs. We find that revealing a second opinion from another expert to the …
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behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to …
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outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …
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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 seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...
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broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …
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There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts … field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …. Consistent with the previous experimental literature, I find that principal-first, gifts do increase agent performance. Unlike …
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