The paper is devoted to the assessment of the relevance of the they-come-to-play effect (CTPE, defined in the text). It employs both a real-effort setting and a questionnaire. The effect proves to be significant, albeit the results cannot be generalized straightforwardly. From the comparison...

Contingent valuation of public goods (or bads) is strongly biased due to the endowment effect and/or the status quo bias.

This paper shows the results of an experiment aiming to test the effect of taxation on the labour supply. Differently from previous experiments [Lévy-Garboua, L., Masclet, D., & Montmarquette, C. (2005). Fiscalité et offre de travail: Une étude experimentale. CIRANO, Montréal, working paper...

The experiment presented in this paper has two aims, both methodological. First, we want to check for the role of what we may call (after Carpenter et al., 2006) the they came to play effect. Second, we want to test whether the lab outcomes are confirmed by a questionnaire on a hypothetical...