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The Role of Sales Agents in Information Disclosure : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
With a large nationwide retailer, we run a natural field experiment to measure the effects of energy use information … comply only partially with the experiment, targeting information at more interested consumers but not discussing energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055494
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Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies : Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment
Halperin, Basil - 2019
We use a theory of apologies to design a nationwide field experiment involving 1.5 million Uber ridesharing consumers … who experienced late rides. Several insights emerge from our field experiment. First, apologies are not a panacea: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889706
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The Impatient Salesperson and the Delegation of Pricing Authority
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046598
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Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience
List, John A. - 2011
literature is that market experience is endogenous. This study presents a framed field experiment that exogenously induces market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127977
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The Rand Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later
Aron-Dine, Aviva - 2012
We re-present and re-examine the analysis from the famous RAND Health Insurance Experiment from the 1970s on the impact … of consumer cost sharing in health insurance on medical spending. We begin by summarizing the experiment and its core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096134
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Working Over Time : Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks
Augenblick, Ned - 2013
(real effort) in a longitudinal experiment. We pair those effort choices with a companion monetary discounting study. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087790
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The Lightbulb Paradox : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
Allcott, Hunt - 2013
parameters, which we estimate using a novel within-subject information disclosure experiment. In the context of the model, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071895
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An Experimental Approach to Merger Evaluation
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2013
of products to which consumers actually switch. In the past, economists have rarely had the ability to experiment in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071901
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What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses
Abaluck, Jason - 2017
experiment, we recover preferences and consideration probabilities using only data on which items were ultimately chosen, and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952501
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The Digital Privacy Paradox : Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk
Athey, Susan - 2017
privacy using field experiment data from the MIT digital currency experiment. There are three findings. First, the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954461