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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2003
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324982
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Why Are Open Ascending Auctions Popular? The Role of Information Aggregation and Behavioral Biases
Offerman, Theo; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Ziegler, Andreas G. B. - 2020
activate revenue enhancing biases. In an experiment, we compare three auctions that differ in how much information is revealed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352203
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Statistics and common sense
Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Magnus, Jan R.; Yoo, Donghoon - 2021
Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and try to understand why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797262
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Power and the Privilege of Clarity: An Analysis of Bargaining Power and Information Transmission
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2011
by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325901
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Money talks? An Experimental Investigation of Cheap Talk and Burned Money
de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
We experimentally study the strategic transmission of information in a setting where both cheap talk and money can be used for communication purposes. Theoretically a large number of equilibria exist side by side, in which senders either use costless messages, money, or a combination of the two....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325974
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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers
de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
beliefs of the employers are self-fulfilling. Theoretically and in an experiment, we investigate under what circumstances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326203
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Shooting the Messenger? Supply and Demand in Markets for Willful Ignorance
Shalvi, Shaul; Soraperra, Ivan; van der Weele, Joël J.; … - 2019
executive decision making in organizations. In our laboratory experiment, advisers are informed about the negative externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114824
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Train Commuters' Scheduling Preferences: Evidence from a Large-Scale Peak Avoidance Experiment
Peer, Stefanie; Knockaert, Jasper; Verhoef, Erik - 2015
collected during large-scale peak avoidance experiment conducted in the Netherlands, in which participants could earn monetary … rewards for traveling outside peak hours. The experiment included ca. 1000 participants and lasted for about 6 months. Holders … of an annual train pass were invited to join the experiment, and a customized smartphone app was used to measure the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403536
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Communication versus (Restricted) Delegation: An Experimental Comparison
Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Sloof, Randolph - 2016
This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment investigating a manager's decision whether or not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526127
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How Universal is Behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325039