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Effects of employees' opportunities to influence in-store music on sales: Evidence from a field experiment
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Moradi, Jasmine; Rudholm, Niklas; … - 2019
The effects of in-store music on consumer behavior have attracted much attention in the marketing literature, but … surprisingly few studies have investigated in-store music in relation to employees. Conducting a large-scale field experiment in … employees more opportunities to influence the in-store music. The experiment lasted 56 weeks, and the stores were randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666059
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Why consumers pay voluntarily: Evidence from online music
Regner, Tobias - 2010
Customers at the online music label Magnatune can pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286483
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency: The case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282497
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326220
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268624
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Fungibility, labels and consumption
Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2010
Fungibility of money is a central assumption in the theory of consumer choice: any unit of money is substitutable for another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277470
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Impatience and credit behavior: Evidence from a field experiment
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - 2007
This paper tests whether heterogeneity of time preferences can explain individual credit behavior. In a field experiment targeting individuals from low-to-moderate income households, we measure individual time preferences through choice experiments, and then match these time preference measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280936
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The (un)compromise effect
Ekström, Mathias - 2018
The current study provides the first experimental test of the compromise effect, i.e. the tendency to choose middle options, in a naturally occurring setting. Simultaneously, I propose and evaluate a novel nudge intended to stimulate active choice - the (un)compromise effect - a compromise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917091
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An economists guide to digital music
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004
In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the … technological protection of digital music and describes new business models as well as consumers' attitude towards music downloads … and audio-streaming. We conclude the guide by a discussion of the evolution of the music industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261083
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Are risk preferences dynamic? Within-subject variation in risk-taking as a function of background music
Halko, Marja Liisa; Kaustia, Markku - 2012
introduce within-subject variation by alternating subjectively liked music and disliked music in the background. We find that … favourite music increases risk-taking, and disliked music suppresses risk-taking, compared to a baseline of no music. Several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311798