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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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readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce …
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Changes in transport costs can affect mobility in ways that differ across the population, affecting the impacts of transport policies. We randomly assign large price reductions on Uber in Egypt over a 3-month period and collect comprehensive data on participant mobility using Google Timeline. A...
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exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange …
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pricing strategy of firms. Educating consumers may do more harm than good and should thus only be considered if the regulator …
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environment with a few simple, realistic ingredients and demonstrate that using an asking price is optimal: it is the pricing … characterization of this equilibrium and use it to explore the positive implications of this pricing mechanism for transaction prices …
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We use a unique design feature of a survey of Italian firms to study the causal effect of inflation expectations on firms' economic decisions. In the survey, a randomly chosen subset of firms is repeatedly treated with information about recent inflation (or the European Central Bank's inflation...
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The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that routine task prices should decline compared to abstract and manual task prices. I propose a new...
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We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from price decreases of equal magnitude. Price...
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Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical providers will supply fewer services if they face increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a...
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