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the nature of provided incentives. We conduct a 'lab in the field' experiment with internal auditors during two large … performance of the unit that they are auditing. We vary incentives in the experiment from individual (piece rate) to competitive …
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Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information concerning the needed and/or provided quality between experts and consumers. The functioning of the market heavily relies on trust on the side of the consumer as well as trustworthiness on the side of the expert. However, a great...
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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a controlled experiment with 415 financial professionals (and 270 students as a control group). Participants have to …
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telling a lie or misrepresenting information. In this paper I use a cheap-talk sender-receiver experiment to show that telling … where teams make decisions. -- deception ; expectations ; team decision making ; individual decision making ; experiment …
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We present a natural field experiment designed to examine the extent to which priming can influence the behaviour of …
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consumers' beliefs about the credibility of firms' CSR claims, which depend in turn on the (expected) fines for fraud. First, we … likelihood of certification. Second, fraud only arises when the fines for fraud are at intermediate levels and some CSR firms do … not certify their practices. Third, the presence of fraud comes at a cost for firms by inducing lower equilibrium prices …
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. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. -- credence goods ; expert services ; natural field experiment ; taxi rides … 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 influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of …
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