This study examines consumer preferences for organic and local apples by combining between- and within-subject design characteristics in a second price auction. We first ask subjects to bid for 1 Kg of apples without any information. In subsequent rounds we reveal information about the organic...

Previous literature analyzing the effects of incentive compatibility of experimental payment mechanisms is dominated by theory. With overwhelming evidence of theory violations in a multiplicity of domains, we fill this gap by empirically exploring the effects of different payment mechanisms in...

This research focuses on examining why young social media users might become trapped in a "social bubble" defined as seeking information that supports only one’s existing beliefs. We use a method called Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify various combinations of factors that either...

There is an ostensible relationship between whether or not a nation is developed and the interpretation and collection of data in this nation. For instance, if a country is developing, it is difficult to collect figures, though much simpler to interpret them. The opposite is the case in a...

The reliability of the REM as a predictor of key economic variables is evaluated 18 to 1 months before the publication of the final data. It is concluded that REM is not a reliable predictor beyond the 6-9 months prior to the month of publication, in general. This period, however, can be...

The importance of the working document is that it allows analyzing the information and the status of the cases associated with (SARS-CoV-2) COVID-19 as data open to the municipal government and especially in the Totonacapan Zone in Mexico, from the registry patient diary, according to age, sex,...

The recent rise and distinct geography of populism highlights the need for high resolution data on the economic and political landscapes and improved spatial political economy models that explain their interrelation. This paper shows that divergent development generates political externalities...

In today’s data-driven world, organizations generate and collect vast amounts of information, yet not all data is managed or utilized with the same degree of efficiency and purpose. This paper investigates the taxonomy and distinctions among white data, grey data, and dark data, offering a...

This paper introduces the new module of the European Commission’s Territorial Economic Data viewer (TEDv) namely, the Industrial Module. The aim is to present the data sources and the methodological approach employed to generate the various dashboards included in this new module. Its...

This paper presents two synthetic estimations of the Gini coefficient at a municipality level for Colombia in the years 2000-2020. The methodology relies on several machine learning models to select the best model for imputation of the data. This derives in two Random Forest models were the...