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On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative
Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2020
uninformative random price. We elicit subjects' Willingness-To-Accept for the bottle before and after the market. Subjects … participate in a double auction market either in a small or a large trading group. The variance in subjects' Willingness …. However, the market is not needed: our anchoring manipulation failed in a large sample. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233948
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The Effectiveness of Dutch Municipal Recycling Policies
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - 2014
The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491384
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Price-setting Power versus Private Information
Sloof, Randolph - 2003
seller has private information about his alternative trading opportunities. Theory predicts that, compared with a situation … these predictions, private information appears to have no impact on the investment levels observed in the experiment. A … question some recent theoretical suggestions that private information rents might substitute for price-setting power in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325012
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Decision Initiation, Decision Implementation, and the Allocation of Decision Rights
Sloof, Randolph; von Siemens, Ferdinand A. - 2015
Organizations must not only take the right decisions, they must also ensure that these decisions are effectively implemented. Fama and Jensen (1983) argue that the same members of many organization are often responsible for both decision initiation and implementation. If these have social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403558
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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives
Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - 2010
Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325826
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Does the Canadian Economy suffer from Dutch Disease?
Beine, Michel; Bos, Charles S.; Coulombe, Serge - 2009
We argue that the failure to disentangle the evolution of the Canadian currency from the U.S. currency leads to potentially incorrect conclusions regarding the case of Dutch disease in Canada. We propose a new approach that is aimed at extracting both currency components and energy- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325816
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Does the Canadian Economy Suffer from Dutch Disease?
Beine, Michel A. R.; Bos, Charles S.; Coulombe, Serge - 2014
We argue that the failure to disentangle the evolution of the Canadian currency from the U.S. currency leads to potentially incorrect conclusions regarding the case of Dutch disease in Canada. We propose a new approach that is aimed at extracting both currency components and energy- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201102