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This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
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In this work we study the case of agents willing to engage in a Renewable Energy Community (REC). The municipality – being the promoter of the REC – burdens all the investment costs (RE plants, storage, local grid interventions) and entrusts an aggregator of its operation paying a fixed...
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information is strong enough to let people decide as if driven by social preferences. The different group decisions in round 2 …
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was decreased by forty percent relative to the control. (3) The party information significantly affected the choices … information interacted with educational level in only eight out of forty choice sets, suggesting that even the more educated … two to ten relative to the control. These findings suggest that the party information helped the respondents to articulate …
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In diesem Diskussionspapier werden die Ergebnisse einer im Mai/Juni 2007 durchgeführten Unternehmensbefragung im Raum Niedersachsen vorgestellt in Bezug auf die Fragestellung, ob sich Unternehmen, die Innovationsförderung erhalten, von nicht geförderten Unternehmen in Bezug auf generelle...
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The paper examines the economic role of modelling information on the decision problem of an exporting firm under … exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal … conveys more information about the random foreign exchange rate. We analyze the interaction between market transparency and …
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supplied information. Outside of the lab, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the cost of information itself from the … effect of self-selection by individuals who tend to gain the most from this information. We thus create an environment in the … lab where subjects are offered additional, useful and identical information on the state of the world across treatments …
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This paper reexamines the paradoxical aspect of the electronic mail game (Rubinstein, 1989). The electronic mail game is a coordination game with payoff uncertainty. At a Bayesian Nash equilibrium of the game, players cannot achieve the desired coordination of actions even when a high order of...
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We report results from a laboratory experiment that explores the effects of preference communication and leader selection mechanisms in group decision-making. In a setting where all members of a group get the same payoff based on the group leader's decision of how much risk to take, we study the...
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substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an "information intervention", and find that were individuals to be provided with the …
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