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Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
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In experimental games, a substantial minority of players often fail to best respond. Using two-person 3x3 one-shot games, we investigated whether 'structuring' the pre-decision deliberation process produces greater consistency between individuals' stated values and beliefs on the one hand and...
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This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions aimed at increasing public goods provision in settings in which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post...
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-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …
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dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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second half of the paper tests the theoretical predictions in an experiment. In contrast to previous literature, the …
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image concerns of being perceived as a promise breaker play a role. In a controlled laboratory experiment, we vary the ex …
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image concerns of being perceived as a promise breaker play a role. In a controlled laboratory experiment, we vary the ex …
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exploit data from a laboratory experiment in which participants were asked to assess videotaped statements as being rather …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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