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Buy-it-now prices in eBay auctions : the field in the lab
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2010
Electronic commerce has grown extraordinarily over the years, with online auctions being extremely successful forms of trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows sellers to post prices at which buyers can purchase a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935655
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Deterrence works for criminals
Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014
study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384339
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Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Harbring, Christine - 2009
behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158876
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A Field Experiment on Using Messaging and Virtual Rewards to Increase User Participation on NanoHUB.org
Samek, Anya; Klimeck, Gerhard - 2015
We conducted an experiment with 30,000 users of a virtual nanotechnology facility, nanoHUB.org. We investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152451
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A Field Experiment on the Impact of Incentives on Milk Choice in the Lunchroom
List, John A.; Samek, Anya - 2015
engage children in making healthful choices. We conduct a field experiment with over 1,500 participants in grades K-8 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138548
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Risky environments, hidden knowledge, and preferences for contract flexibility : an artefactual field experiment
Kunte, Sebastian; Wollni, Meike - 2015
Contract flexibility can be expedient for economic exchange in environments with high ambiguity and risk, but may also encourage opportunistic behavior. We run a modified investment game, including the choice between two different contract designs and asymmetric information about the realized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529510
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Failure of unravelling theory? : a natural field experiment on voluntary quality disclosure
Lane, Tom; Zhou, Minghai - 2021
This paper presents a simple adaptive model of demand adjustment in cooperative games, and analyzes this model in weighted majority games. In the model, a randomly chosen player sets his demand to the highest possible value subject to the demands of other coalitions members being satisfied. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665574
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Failure of unravelling theory? : a natural field experiment on voluntary quality disclosure
Lane, Tom; Zhou, Minghai - 2022
quality. This study is the first to use a natural field experiment to test this proposition, and the first to test it in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013475155
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Free riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008823173
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Free-riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2011
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314547