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Consumer and Competitor Reactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Barron, John; Umbeck, John R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2007
In response to a price change by a single seller, it is common for the density of sellers in the market to influence both the quantity response of consumers and the price response of other sellers. Using field experiment data collected around a series of exogenously imposed price changes we find...
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Competitive Price Targeting with Smartphone Coupons
Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2016
To investigate the potential returns of targeted mobile discounts, we design and implement a large-scale field experiment involving two competing movie theaters. In the experiment, we test different forms of targeting based on real-time consumer location and past consumer behavior. A novel...
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Pre-play communication in Cournot competition : an experiment with students and managers
Waichman, Israel; Requate, Tilman; Siang, Ch’ng Kean - 2010
This study investigates the impact of pre-play communication on the outcomes in Cournot duopoly and triopoly …-communication’ and a free-communication device. We find that the effect of communication on collusion is larger in duopoly than in … quantities than students, and communication enhances the difference between the subject pools in duopoly but reduces this …
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909477
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923537
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In search of workers' real effort reciprocity : a field and a laboratory experiment
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, … - 2008 - Updated version of paper no 55
We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees with hourly wages. Work effort neither reacts to an increase of the own wage, nor to a positive or negative peer comparison. This result seems at odds with numerous laboratory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365848
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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349849
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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472903
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In search of workers' real effort reciprocity : a field and a laboratory experiment
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, … - 2005
We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees with hourly wages. Work effort neither reacts to an increase of the own wage, nor to a positive or negative peer comparison. This result seems at odds with numerous laboratory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343961