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Entry decisions in market entry games usually depend on the belief about how many others are entering the market, the belief about the own rank in a real effort task, and subjects' risk preferences. In this paper I am able to replicate these basic results and examine two further dimensions: (i)...
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Credence goods, such as car repairs or medical services, are characterized by severe informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers, leading to fraud in the form of provision of insufficient service (undertreatment), provision of unnecessary service (overtreatment) and charging too much...
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learned in their professional training. -- artefactual field experiment ; car mechanics ; credence goods …
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failing to make the most out of observing others. -- social learning ; advice ; observational learning ; beauty-contest game …
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We study credence goods markets where an expert not only cares for her own monetary payoff, but also for the monetary payoff of her customer. We show how an expert with heterogeneous distributional preferences responds to monetary incentives in the absence of institutions, under liability and/or...
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-shot public goods experiment and the joy-of-destruction experiment with pastoralists from both areas. Results from the joy …-of-destruction experiment reveal that a substantial fraction of people is willing to reduce another subject's income, although this comes at an …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … ; gender ; experiment …
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