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The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2009
, verifiability fails to yield efficiency in experiments with endogenous prices. We identify heterogeneous distributional preferences … as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294825
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The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294835
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services - Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010
experts make the predicted promise; (2) proper promises induce consumer-friendly behavior; and (3) higher interaction prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294816
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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; Johnston, David; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552490
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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294777
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The economics of credence goods : on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880630
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Contracting for infrastructure projects as credence goods
Dulleck, Uwe; Li, Jianpei - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009405952