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for possible carryover effects, like, e.g., a lingering taste of the products. Proper randomization is essential to … guarantee the usual model assumption of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) errors. We consider a randomization … procedure that permutes treatment labels and assessors. This restricted randomization leaves the neighbour structure unchanged …
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they expect the fundamental value to stay constant.Running the experiment with a different context (stocks of a depletable …
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We theoretically and experimentally study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus...
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Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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We study price efficiency and trading behavior in laboratory limit order markets with asymmetrically informed traders. Markets differ in the number of insiders present and in the subset of traders who receive information about the number of insiders present. We observe that price efficiency (i)...
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We introduce human traders into an agent based financial market simulation prone to bubbles and crashes. We find that human traders earn lower profits overall than do the simulated agents (robots) but earn higher profits in the most crash-intensive periods. Inexperienced human traders tend to...
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This paper evaluates the impact of an antipoverty program on the health condition of individuals. The program combines a cash transfer with financial incentives for positive behavior to poor families. Its main purposes are to improve the living conditions of eligible households and to promote...
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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …
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another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and …
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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 … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this …
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